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In the environmental area the plant has been working heavily with the concept of sustainability and in 2005 organized an Internal Sustainability Committee, with representatives from all areas in the Company. The objective of this team is to analyze the social, economic and environmental aspects of the production processes in order to guarantee business sustainability via actions that integrate these three pillars. An example of this is implementation of the Environmental Management System’s Selective Waste Collection program, which is involved with awareness-building work among its employees and sub-contractors of the importance of collecting paper, plastic and wood, which are then donated to the Santo André city administration.
Throughout 2007, employees from the local unit planted more than 1,000 tree saplings in public squares in Santo André and São Bernardo do Campo.
This initiative is part of the Ten Million Trees program, launched by Alcoa on June 5, 2003, when Alain Belda, the global Company’s Chairman and CEO, planted the millionth tree in Poços de Caldas (Minas Gerais), thus marking the early close by five years of the One Million Trees program, an initiative that united Alcoa employees, communities, suppliers and clients throughout the world.
The program, which is at an advanced stage in Alcoa’s units in Brazil, seeks to plant 10 million trees worldwide by 2020. The Company adopted a 2020 Global Sustainability Strategy by which clear and ambitious targets relating to factors such as a reduction in water consumption and energy, reusing and recycling waste and reducing gas emissions have been established.
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