Environmental Report
Our responsibility to the environment
Hongkong Post is committed to help protect the environment and support sustainable development within the community. We are keen to ensure that our services and internal operations are conducted in an environmentally responsible manner. We have put in place a number of “green” office practices to save energy, save paper, reduce waste and recycle materials. We promote environmental awareness among our staff, with a view to encouraging efficient and prudent use of resources and energy in all of our operations.
This Report covers measures taken by Hongkong Post, highlighting our achievements and reaffirming our "green" agenda for the future.
Our Environmental Policy is:
- To ensure environmental sustainability, user-friendliness and safety in our public offices and workplaces for all users, including our customers, visitors, staff and contractors.
- To implement effective green housekeeping measures, including those for energy and resource conservation, reuse of materials and waste minimisation, as well as for waste recovery for recycling
- To increase staff awareness of environmental and sustainability issues
- To introduce postal products and services that incorporate the concepts of environmental protection, sustainability and environmentally preferable purchasing, as well as serve the purposes of environmental promotion and awareness enhancement, where opportunities arise
Our environmental policy was inaugurated in 1999 and refined in 2006. Since then, we have implemented a number of programmes that not only recycle waste and reduce consumption, but also encourage the formulation of strategies to use resources in such a way as to reduce impact on the environment.
In the year under review, we complied fully with the HKSAR Government’s environmental policy and regulations relating to consumption of resources, energy conservation and recycling of waste.