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operating in Rennes and also the Company is launching a “use
your bike” subsidy for people using their own bicycle for going
to work. These projects aim to provide an alternative way of
transportation for employees.
In Worldline France, there is going to be implemented a
carpooling project launched by Atos and that is already
digital collaboration is strongly promoted as a lever to reduce
the environmental footprint and operational costs while
generating benefits to the work life balance of employees.
travels and collaborative environments and the use of remote
In some countries such as Worldline Germany or in Bezons in
France, electric cars are available for employees’ business
sustainablemanagement of ourwaste
[AO19]
Developing the circular economy and
A.5.3.3.5
follows:
Worldline pays particular attention to the collection,
management and recycling of its waste. This is organized as
etc.) and WEEE:
Internal waste management through sorting of office
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waste (cardboard, paper, cartridges, toners, batteries,
legal requirements; otherwise Worldline manages the
subcontractors directly.
Worldline’s real estate policy favors the rental of office
spaces, which are often shared by multiple tenants. Office
waste is managed by the landlord in accordance with the
As part of its optimization program, Worldline also tries to
locate its employees and operations at large sites (over 500
employees). These sites are eligible for the ISO 14001
certification program and the volume of office waste is
tracked, along with the other environmental indicators. This
allows corrective action to be taken, either to reduce the
volume of waste, or to optimize waste sorting.
garden furniture;
EKOL, which uses them to make useful objects such as
recognized companies for further treatment. For example,
plastic cups used in Belgium are recycled by the company
Recycling bins are placed in offices to facilitate the sorting of
paper, confidential documents, cans, plastic, cartridges and
other waste. All these wastes are then sent to officially
Used or end-of-life WEEE (including payment terminals)
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is collected from customers and processed externally.
This equipment is also repurposed:
and dovetails with its CSR strategy.
Worldline is fully committed to the circular economy and
prioritizes WEEE management as an important way of
addressing the impacts caused by its activities and payment
solutions. This approach ultimately reduces CO
2
emissions
reusing raw materials when processing waste in order to
conserve them and optimize the products concerned. Some
of the materials used to manufacture Worldline products are
scarce and require special attention.
Since Worldline’s activities could potentially impact on raw
materials and resources, Worldline has decided to focus on
and electrical appliances.
At Worldline, WEEE includes computers (laptops and
desktops), monitors, printers, projectors, telephone handsets
(fixed and mobile), mice, ink cartridges, IT servers, electronic
storage devices, networks, cables, battery chargers, adapters
environmental agencies.
Worldline, together with its stakeholders, has consistently
sought to be diligent in managing the end of life of its
equipment and solutions, and has always complied with the
European WEEE Directive (Directive 2012/19/EU). In
Worldline is committed to managing and recycling WEEE
and has always fulfilled its legal requirements in this regard.
accordance with this directive, WEEE is collected from
customers and recovered, recycled or repurposed using
specialist subcontractors, community schemes or
recycling and recovery rather than disposal.
adopting an environmental policy to encourage waste
server and PC suppliers (responsible procurement policy)
and adopts an eco-friendly design approach (reduction of
impacts at source). It also acts downstream to encourage
the reuse of hardware, organize waste transportation and
The priority is to use the circular economy to prevent or at
least reduce the production and harmful effects of WEEE. To
achieve this, Worldline acts upstream with its choice of
minimize the distances traveled and volume of waste. This
means choosing suppliers close to the sites concerned and
impact.
suppliers agree to process their products via specialist
channels. Suppliers assessed by Ecovadis must meet
various waste management and recycling criteria consistent
with Worldline’s sustainable procurement policy. Through
According to international practice, suppliers are responsible
for end-of-life computer hardware. Furthermore, by signing
the Sustainable Supplier Charter attached to their contracts,
this, Worldline encourages its suppliers to mitigate their
management services. The Company can collect electronic
equipment from its customers and offer a worldwide repair
service as well as an efficient after-sales service.
For its customers, Worldline offers efficient waste
and recycled 100% of it [AO19]. The rest of waste
corresponds to 657,947 Kg and 94% of it was recycled.
In 2016, Worldline produced 63,821 Kg of electronical waste