For the fourth consecutive year, the sustainability actions of Celulose Irani are acknowledged by the Environmental Benchmarking Program, an initiative that aims at spreading, strengthening and encouraging the engagement in good social and environmental practices among Brazilian companies and institutions.
Celulose Irani’s Environmental Education Program was awarded in the 2010 ranking of the Best ones in Braz8ilian Social and Environmental Management. IRANI has as its goal the development of an environmental education program encompassing its associates, schools, universities, clients, suppliers and communities within the region of Vargem Bonita (SC). During the year, the company adopts actions, emphasizing celebration dates such as the Day of the Water, the Day of the Environment, the Day of the Tree and the Day of the River. Such occasions include educational activities aiming at awakening, in those involved, habits and positions that are sustainable, through a cycle of workshops, visits to the Forestry Greenhouse, distribution and planting of native seeding, ecological walks, dynamic activities and distribution of information flyers. IRANI develops five projects within its Environmental Education Program: Ecological Garden, Oil Recycling, Environmental Kids Patrol, Seed of the Branch, and Cleanse.
Between 2006 and 2009, 3,706 hours from our associates were made available for environmental education, aiming at organizing and performing events, involving over 10 thousand persons in 12 cities of the west region of the Santa Catarina state.
