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Driving Sustainable Change |
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Economic Performance |
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Environmental Performance |
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Social Performance - Empowering People |
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Assurance Report |
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| The promotional methods for our ‘Go Green Project Team 3’- posters, vehicles and much more |
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| Ensuring a clean environment -
the water treatment plant at our Siyambalape facility |
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| Recycling Kerosene Oil to conserve a scarce resource |
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REJUVENATING THE ENVIRONMENT |
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Management Approach |
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This section looks at how the Company has adapted its practices and processes so as to rejuvenate the physical environment and ensure its sustainability for generations |
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Managing Energy Use |
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The Company’s main source of energy comes from the national grid. Alternative and renewable sources are being explored and progressively integrated but yet at this point of time conventional electricity provides the primary source. Energy use is constantly monitored with a view to reducing costs and making maximum use of the energy consumed. Throughout the Company incandescent lamps are being replaced by energy saving bulbs. At present we have replaced more than 80% of bulbs to energy saving. Computers in all locations are programmed to revert to the standby mode within five minutes of idling. All new units ordered by the Company come with low radiation levels. Air conditioning units are regularly serviced and are set at a constant minimum of 24 degrees C. Natural sunlight is used wherever possible and new facilities are being designed to make maximum use of natural light. All machinery at all locations are operated at optimum energy levels. |
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Managing Water |
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| Here too the national supply provides the main source of water for the Company’s operations. Ground water sources will be explored as part of the Company’s next phase of sustainability. The Company’s policy on water management is driven by efforts to both reduce the use of water and to treat and re-use the resource wherever this is possible. The Company is exploring the use of advanced water treatment techniques in an effort to make maximum utilisation of this resource. At the Company’s Siyambalape facility, a pH testing system has been installed to check the acidity levels of the water discharged into the sewage system. This system periodically checks to see that the water released to the sewage system conforms to legal limits. An active oil separator has also been installed at Siyambalape. This separator ensures that the water is not contaminated with oil residue when it is released into the physical environment. |
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Noise Emissions |
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| Noise emissions from all of the Company’s facilities are strictly controlled to ensure that all those within the vicinity of these locations are not subjected to uncomfortable noise levels. The Company complies scrupulously with the legal requirements with regard to noise emissions and is taking steps to ensure that its noise emissions are substantially below the legal requirements. | ||||||||||||||
Emissions to Air |
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| Dimo is committed to reducing ambient air emissions in all aspects of its operations. The Company ensures that exhaust extractors at all locations capture Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and diesel fumes that are emitted. These fumes are excreted into a machine, which is carried upward to legally permissible limits before they are released to the air. All Company vehicles are subjected to regular and stringent emission testing to ensure that they comply with the emission regulations under the National Environment Act. Ozone depleting emissions such as gas from Air Conditioning units are recycled in special machines to avoid leakage into the environment.
Our passenger car workshop in Colombo is fitted with exhaust gas and dust extractors, the former to deal with harmful gas emissions and the latter to absorb dust that emanates when air filters and brake components are cleaned. All our paint booths are fitted with filters to prevent the release of paint fumes and particles into the environment. |
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Waste Management |
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| The Company’s policy is to reduce waste as much as possible. Where waste does arise, we make every effort to reuse and recycle as much as is technically and economically feasible. In keeping with the Company’s objective of conserving scarce resources Dimo has introduced numerous procedures to adhere to this philosophy. One such initiative is the ‘Go Green Project Team 3’. Last year the Company introduced a system to segregate its waste into plastics, solid waste, paper, glass and other materials. Unfortunately the Municipal Council is not geared to responding to such a system for managing waste. The Company instead has put in place a task team referred to as the ‘GO Green Project Team 3’ as a solution to this problem. Dimo developed this concept to further encourage all employees to make greater contribution towards conservation of scarce resources by the proper discharge and disposal of waste. Under the initiatives taken by this team, waste is now collected at our Colombo premises in a manner that will facilitate recycling. The solid waste is handed over to third parties for recycling, while waste food is given to a farm for use as animal feed. This system for waste management will soon be introduced at the Company’s workshop in Siyambalape, the Weliweriya Logistics Centre and all other branches. All used toner cartridges are recycled. Toners are collected by our supplier, who in turn resends the used toner cartridges to the manufacturer. Colour coded containers have been placed in dining areas to segregate food from wrapping materials. The Company also has a ‘take back’ scheme which enables customers to return used tyres: which are then provided to a company which recycles the tyres and uses it as raw material. |
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Handling of Chemicals |
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| Chemical spillages at the workshops are virtually non-existent and if any such incidents occur there are properly documented rules and guidelines in place to respond to the impact of such a spillage. Employees have been briefed on the proper procedures that must be followed and the training that is given to employees is in line with global safety practices. Oil suckers are used to minimise oil spillage on the shop floor and oil waste is disposed off to the furnaces of authorised parties. |
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Paper Management |
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| Dimo’s objective in this area is to move towards a substantial reduction in the amount of paper used within the organisation. Wherever possible the Company has introduced procedures for recycling used paper and at the same time uses recycled paper where this is possible. The Company’s EMS has the following specific measures with regard to paper:
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