Annual Report

Our Environment

Responsibility to the environment

Hongkong Post is committed to protecting the environment and supporting sustainable development within the community, especially by carrying out all its services and internal operations in an environmentally responsible manner. To this end we have introduced a number of "green" office practices that are helping us save energy and paper, reduce waste and recycle materials. More generally, we are promoting environmental awareness right across our staff, encouraging them to use resources and energy prudently and efficiently.

Initiatives and achievements for the environment in 2008/09

Hongkong Post helps promote environmental awareness by issuing promotional stamp sets with environmental or conservational themes. Over the past year we issued a number of such sets, including a set of stamps depicting a range of Jellyfish in June 2008, followed in July 2008 by a limited prestige edition of Giant Panda stamps and stamp products, which came with a Giant Panda Paw Print. Proceeds were donated to the "Sichuan Earthquake Relief Giant Panda Base Rebuilding Fund". In February 2009 we celebrated China's natural beauty in our "Mainland Scenery Series No. 8" stamp sheetlet, depicting beautiful Mount Tianshan in Xinjiang.

In accord with the Clean Air Charter, all our post offices undergo regular indoor air quality (IAQ) checks. Four of our Post Offices – namely, the new Tuen Mun Delivery Office, the Shek Wu Hui Post Office, the Tin Yiu Post Office and the Yeung Uk Road Post Office – have successfully been registered in the "Hong Kong Energy Efficiency Registration Scheme for Buildings" as complying with the Code of Practice for Energy Efficiency of Lighting Installations.

All Hongkong Post vehicles use unleaded, low-sulphur fuel, and measures to improve fuel efficiency such as switching off engines while waiting are now the norm. We have also continued adding environmentally-friendly vehicles to our fleet to help reduce emissions, and now have a total of five Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vehicles in operation. As older vehicles come to the end of their working lives, they are being replaced with vehicles meeting Euro IV standards.

We are committed to promoting green management at many levels. To reduce our consumption of electricity, we have consolidated our computer servers and cut down on the number of fluorescent tubes in some office common areas. We keep a close track on our use of photocopying paper, more than 30% of which is made from recycled paper. More generally, we encourage staff to avoid printing out documents wherever possible. In 2008/09, we also reduced waste by recycling 46,000 used laser jet cartridges.

We take every opportunity to promote environmental awareness amongst Hongkong Post staff. For example, we entered a Hongkong Post team for the Tree-Planting Challenge 2008 organised by Friends of the Earth (HK).

Our colleagues were enthusiastic in support of a tree-planting campaign.

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