Grupo Empresarial Éxito understands that environmental care and impact reduction are important sustainable management pillars. The Company mainly works with consumable materials and resources, the emissions that they generate and how to dispose of them. It strives to promote customer awareness regarding environmental care practices.
- Farewell to plastic cups: The Company donated mugs to each employee in the administration offices throughout Colombia, thereby saving 1,700,000 disposable plastic cups per year.
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- In 2011 two Éxito supermarkets and one Carulla supermarket developed 21 references of disposable packaging paper made of 100% sugar cane fiber pulp and corn starch.
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- More than 34,700 shopping baskets used for transportation and supply were made with recycled material, which saved more than 66 metric tons of new plastic.
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- The Company recycling program enabled recovering 20,515 metric tons of used material. The resources generated by this sustainable management are destined to Fundación Éxito to be invested for the benefit of children in their early childhood.
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- More than 11,200 pallets were repaired using recycled wood at the Las Vegas distribution center in Medellín, and at the Caribe distribution center in Barranquilla.
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- 90% of the Grupo Éxito Food Industry Christmas bakery portfolio is packed in biodegradable boxes.
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- In 2011 Grupo Éxito donated near 188,000 metric tons of food to zoos and to animal breeding farms.
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