LANXESS awards winners of Green Cycle contest in Porto Feliz (SP)

LANXESS, German multinational company of chemical specialties, selected 3 projects winners of the Green Cycle contest in Porto Feliz (SP). Each one of those three projects will receive up to R$ 10.000,00 (ten thousand Brazilian reais or 2.885,63 American dollars), besides receiving technical assistance from specialists in social and environmental projects management aimed at environmental education, water preservation, fauna, flora, selective waste collection, recycling, reforestation, among others.

The first place went to the Reciclando com Porto Feliz (or Recycling with Porto Feliz) project, that has the goal to improve and expand the selective waste collection in the city. The intention of Recycling with Porto Feliz is to decrease exploration of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, besides contributing to city cleanliness, improving population’s life quality, increasing environmental awareness, social inclusion, landfill site life extension and strengthen cooperatives.

The project Reduzindo o consumo de água e melhorando o microclima no ambiente escolar (Reducing water consumption and improving micro weather at school environment), received the second prize. This initiative seeks to implement energy efficiency measures to ease temperature in classrooms and decrease water consumption at school environment. To do so, besides the environmental awareness work, 71 trees will be planted and faucets with a timer will be installed.

At third place is the Educando com a Sustentabilidade no Assentamento (Educating with Sustainability at the Settlement), which has the goal to solve social and environmental problems at Agrovila Community Center. To do so, besides the environmental awareness work, will be produced and planted seedlings of native plants to preserve fountains and create rain collecting systems at the community.

To Marcelo Lacerda, CEO of LANXESS in Brazil, Green Cycle contest meets the company’s foundation pillars. “The social and environmental contest green cycle emerged from a LANXESS real value: the respect to the environment and community. In all our factories and offices around the world, preoccupation with the environment is something very present on the attitudes of each LANXESS employees. To us, a better society can only be built id we have well informed people that are committed to the social and environmental cause.” As highlighted by Lacerda.

The three projects were selected by a technical commission formed by LANXESS environmental specialists, representatives of local governments and the press.

About LANXESS
LANXESS (www.lanxess.com.br) is leader on chemical specialties, with a sale volume of 8 billion euros in 2014. Currently, it has about 16.600 employees, spread around 29 countries. The company is present in 52 units of production around the world. LANXESS core business is development, production and sale of chemical specialties, plastic, rubber, and intermediates. 

In Brazil, LANXESS is represented by 10 business units, it has approximately 1.000 employees, five production units, labs and offices, spread across the cities of São Paulo and Porto Feliz (SP), São Leopoldo and Triunfo (RS), Duque de Caxias (RJ) and Cabo de Santo Agostinho (PE).

LANXESS is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI World and DJSI Europe) and the FTSE4Good.
 

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