For the second consecutive year, Cellulose Irani is recognized by the ÉPOCA Green Company Award. In 2012, Irani is among the reference companies in environmental management and climate change.
The result of a partnership between ÉPOCA magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the ÉPOCA Green Company Award highlights in this year´s edition, 20 companies with the best environmental practices in Brazil, including IRANI.
The winners of the award were evaluated in a universe of 120 companies and their practices were analyzed in areas such as: energy efficiency, responsible use of water, garbage disposal, transport, incorporation of environmental criteria in the development of products and services and the reduction of greenhouse gases.
In this context, IRANI is a worthy winner for developing actions to minimize the effects of global warming, such as the Greenhouse Gas Inventory (GHG) and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects of the Co-generation Plant and the Effluent Treatment Station (WWTP). In addition to these actions, IRANI recycles about 90% of the waste from factories, internally, the rest is sent to landfills.
The Company also is considered as being carbon neutral by sequestering more GHG than it emits.
Get to know some of our actions to minimize the effects of global warming.