Equipping and renovating buildings with the most virtuous materials possible is a priority for the care and support sector. A study commissioned and published in 2012 by one of our European associative partners identified nora rubber flooring, with a compliant Blue Angel ecolabel and high quality, as the best option currently available on the market.
Centimeo, the job-creating, community-minded distributor
Centimeo is a single-serve dispenser of eco-responsible snacks made in France and payable with red coins (cents): biodegradable chewing gum made in Angers, organic cookies made in Normandy, fair-trade chocolate, etc. The operation is entirely free of charge for establishments. The dispenser mounts like a picture on the wall, and requires no power supply.
BUY RESPONSIBLY
Since 2015, the "Responsible Purchasing Commitments" campaign has been offering signatory establishments the chance to make sustainable and supportive purchases in favor of protecting the biosphere.
Theme day: responsible purchasing commitments
Catherine Taillefer, hospital pharmacist at Hôpitaux des Portes de Camargue, presents the facility's appropriation of the Persistence, Bioaccumulation and Toxicity (PBT) index for drug molecules for aquatic environments launched in 2013. Find the link to the video in this article.
Campaign "Which baby cosmetics for the maternity ward?"
In 2008, the C2DS studied the contents of baby gift sets offered to expectant mothers, and discovered a veritable toxic cocktail of substances, some of them classified as CMR, in the samples of cosmetics, baby bottles and other gifts given by brands to mothers for their babies.
London hospitals pool their warehouses
In the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) is one of England's largest employers and a major purchaser of goods and services, with a correspondingly huge carbon footprint of 18 million tonnes of CO2 per year. It has set itself an ambitious target: to reduce carbon emissions by 26% by 2020, by 80% by 2050 and, in the shorter term, by 10% from 2007 levels by 2015.
Interview with Marion Jaros, Office for Environmental Protection of the City of Vienna, Austria
Read the interview with Marion Jaros, representative of the Office for Environmental Protection of the City of Vienna in Austria. She tells us about the ÖkoKauf Wien sustainable purchasing program, which has created a database on disinfectants.