biO2 environmental policy

The philosophy of biO2 is quality of life through the balance of interactions between human beings and nature. Its value is a natural and vegetarian diet, practice of sports, and contact with the environment. It is believed that even though efforts are made regarding the environmental preservation, many natural resources are still being used and it is acknowledged that all its activities, products and services may cause impacts on the environment. Therefore, we are concerned with our environment sustainability in everything we do. Some of our actions are showed as follows:

• Use natural resources, like water and energy, raw materials and inputs needed for the production processes rationally and sustainably;
• Work with paper packages that come from the good practice of forest handling;
• Minimize the use of natural resources;
• Prevent the generation of pollution from its activities, such as the use of processes, practices, materials, products, services or energy to avoid, reduce or control the generation, emission or discharge of any kind of pollutant or reject so that negative impacts to the environment are reduced. Commit to prevent pollution through reduction in the pollutant source to avoid the generation of residues, emissions and simultaneously saving resources;
• Reuse materials that have been produced or participated of the process within the site or transfer materials to outside the place, with the aim of reuse or recycling;
• Commit to satisfy the applicable legal requirements and other requirements signed by the company that are related to its environmental aspects;
  Foster the production and consumption of organic food so that contamination of chemicals in the soil and water may be avoided, besides avoiding the contamination in animals and human beings;
• Adopt the Production + Clean model in the organization;
• Make viable the plantation of trees to neutralize the emission of greenhouse effect gases according to the Neutral Carbon Program (PCN);
• Support the promotion of awareness of the environmental impacts and their possible solutions through the Environmental Education based on internal and external communication;
• Educate and train everyone who worked in the organization regarding the environmental problems and their work consequences to the environment;
• Support preservation and/or research projects of fauna, flora and environment;
• Permanently seek to improve the environmental quality of the services, product and workplace through the development of assessment procedures of environmental performance and associated indicators;
• Be the example of leadership in the environmental management field.