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CAPGEMINI: PEOPLE, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) AND BUSINESS ETHICS
3.3 Managing our environmental impact
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plastics and an accompanying communications campaign to
in India, we launched a “Zero Plastic” campaign in 2016, with all
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owned and leased facilities required to phase out the use of
avoid the use of paper tissues.
explain the impacts of plastic waste to our people. Three offices
also organized a “No Tissue Paper Day”, to encourage people to
to identify opportunities to increase recycling rates and provide
alternatives to sending waste to landfill:
As well as reducing the amount of waste generated, we continue
in India, our “My Jashn” Capgemini celebration event not only
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broke the Guinness World Record for single largest Bollywood
Dance Lesson (5,500 employees took part), it was also a
successful example of a “Zero Waste” event. The event was held
across eleven cities and generated 16.4 tons of waste (mainly
food waste) out of which 85% was sent to a biogas plant and
15% distributed to a pig farm;
segregation;
in Poland, a communications campaign and new signage was
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developed to inform people about the importance of waste
ranking by WWF and was the highest ranking consulting firm, a
recognition for our sustainable approach to purchasing, use and
in France, Capgemini was placed 13
th
in the 2016 PAP50
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disposal of paper;
(reduce, reuse and recycle).
segregation and awareness campaigns launched around
e-waste to help encourage people follow the waste hierarchy
in Germany, improvements have been implemented on waste
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Group, as many countries do not provide cafeterias or food for
employees. However, a number of initiatives to reduce food waste
Food waste is not a material environmental impact across the
are in place at a country-level including:
encouraged to self-serve to ensure they are not given more food
in India (where on-site cafeterias are provided), people are
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for example, by equating waste to the number of meals that
could have been provided;
than needed. Ongoing communication campaigns have helped
raise awareness of the amount of food waste being generated,
these locations, the municipal waste system enables food waste
to be used for the generation of biogas;
in Sweden, food waste is segregated for several of our locations
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including Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, Älmhult & Växjö. In
in France, at our training campus (Les Fontaines), food waste is
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used to create compost which is then is re-used by gardeners
for the maintenance of the 52-hectare park;
free at dinner) and ensuring meals are prepared on request
where possible;
products, re-offering lunch products at dinner time at reduced
prices (for example, smoothies prepared at lunch are offered for
in the Netherlands, food waste reduction is achieved by on-site
cafeterias making careful purchasing decisions for fresh
in the UK, food waste is segregated at key sites and disposed of
through waste-to-energy-schemes (
i.e.
the food waste is used
to generate electricity);
in North America, cafeterias are not available on site but where
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food is brought in for team events, leftovers are made available
to other employees. If there is a major event with large amount
of excess food, caterers will donate to local shelters.
comprehensive data.One positive sign, is that the percentage of
waste being recycled has increased across the Group, from 27%
due to improvements in the quality and coverage of our waste
data, with India and France in particular providing more
In spite of these efforts, our reported total waste tonnage
increased by 10% across the Group, which we believe is mainly
in 2015 to 30% in 2016.
Other sources
Water data continues to be collected where this is available, with
improvements to tap fittings, sensors and flush controls in several
the UK), waterless urinals (Bangalore, India) and a hydro
pneumatic pumping system (India). We have also made
invested in innovative technology to reduce water use, including
rainwater harvesting equipment (in two offices in India and one in
no assessment done to date regarding potential scarcity of supply
across our global locations. Across several locations, we have
locations, as well as giving water awareness tips on posters and
as part of training courses.
The volume of measured water (used and recycled) in 2016 was
1,236,685 m3, a reduction of around 16% compared to 2015
driven mostly by reductions in North America, India and the
Netherlands.
UK accounts for the most of this reduction with lower levels of
F-gas leakage and emissions reported in 2016.
F-Gas emissions for 2016 are 1,545 tCO2e which is a reduction of
over 17% compared to the restated value of 1,866 for 2015. The
footnotes below.
Further country-level details are provided in the tables and the