The use of material and procurement

What is your personal eco-activity?

In our vo­ca­tional school sys­tem at Perho Culi­nary, Tourism & Busi­ness Col­lege, there are work­ing, study­ing and eat­ing hun­dreds of peo­ple on daily ba­sis, so the en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact can be quite large.. By fol­low­ing  sus­tain­able prac­tices, there can be more eco-ef­fi­cient ac­tions and less neg­a­tive im­pacts for the en­vi­ron­ment.

The com­mon in­ten­tion is learn­ing to no­tice the main neg­a­tive af­fects im­me­di­ately in or­der to gain the max­i­mum sus­tain­able ben­e­fit of all the re­sources. Eco-ef­fi­ciency, as well as the mod­er­a­tion is some­thing that ev­ery­one can con­trib­ute through their choices of con­sump­tion. Our choices are sound tran­si­tion to a  more sus­tain­able way of life.

Changes in your con­sump­tion pat­terns does not mean a re­turn to the time be­fore the in­ven­tion of the elec­tric light bulb.  On the con­trary, it may be a change to­wards a new & in­no­va­tive kind of well-be­ing and find­ing even bet­ter qual­ity of life. Just a few small acts of be­hav­ior may achieve an­nual big en­vi­ron­men­tal sav­ings!

• Staff and stu­dents are en­cour­aged to use both sides of pa­per – in or­der to re­duce the over use of ex­pen­sive copy pa­per. The copy­ing process is two-sided when­ever pos­si­ble.
• Print or copy only when it is nec­es­sary; or you may use dig­i­tal ver­sions of doc­u­ments.
• School and the restau­rant use pri­mar­ily rental tex­tiles. Dis­carded tow­els and ta­ble cloths are used as clean­ing fab­ric. Mi­crofiber cloths and bio-or­ganic wash­ing and clean­ing agents are also rec­om­mended.
• Eco-la­beled prod­ucts, ser­vices and re­new­able prod­ucts or ma­te­rial are used as much as pos­si­ble.
• The use of any dis­pos­able prod­ucts is min­i­mized.  PVC, as well as in­di­vid­u­ally wrapped prod­ucts are avoided (but­ter packs, sin­gle serv­ing yo­gurt con­tain­ers, cof­fee cap­sules, etc.)
• Haz­ardous waste is min­i­mized by the use of recharge­able bat­ter­ies and bat­tery packs.
• The use of do­mes­tic and long-last­ing fur­ni­ture, that is re­cy­clable, is rec­om­mended.
• The use of fo­lio pa­per or plas­tic bags are min­i­mized—they are re­placed by the use of lids and con­tain­ers.

Nature serves us all – also companies                         

The loss of bio­di­ver­sity weak­ens ecosys­tems , which is also a threat to hu­man ex­is­tence. Peo­ple will ben­e­fit from the ser­vices pro­vided by healthy ecosys­tems in many ways!

• Ecosys­tems sus­tain the pro­duc­tion of food, en­ergy, medicines and other es­sen­tial prod­ucts, ba­sic raw ma­te­ri­als.
• Ecosys­tems reg­u­late cli­mate, flood­ing, pu­rify wa­ter and help the de­com­po­si­tion of haz­ardous sub­stances; all ac­tiv­i­ties sup­port­ing qual­ity of life.
• Bio­di­ver­sity pro­vides nour­ish­ment of the life and aes­thetic ex­pe­ri­ences and acts as a source of sci­en­tific in­no­va­tion.
• Ecosys­tems sup­port many man­u­fac­tur­ing pro­cesses in main­tain­ing the wa­ter cy­cle, soil rich­ness, as well as biomass and food pro­duc­tion.