Environmentally responsible employees
VANINA POQUET
Head of Duty Free Inflight for Duty Free Global
Go Green: a team of committed employees at Lagardère Travel Retail
At the start of 2019, more than 20 particularly committed employees from Lagardère Travel Retail’s Duty Free head office formed the Go Green team in order to implement environmentally responsible actions within the company.
Their first mission – to reduce the head office’s environmental impact – resulted in concrete actions such as promoting two environmentally responsible search engines, listing two environmentally responsible prepared meal providers and even organising participative workshops on the theme of zero waste.
Furthermore, Go Green’s second aim is to raise employee awareness about sustainable development issues by organising internal events, in particular by means of a dedicated information breakfast during which committed brands were presented and employees invited to take part in practical workshops.
Go Green also organised a sale of low-cost pollution-reducing plants with ESAT La Mare Savin. A second market was organised in December 2019 for the festive period.
Following these initial successes, the aim is to continue to promote initiatives that will enable the Duty Free head office to become even more environmentally responsible with the introduction of recycling, for example.
Sale of pollution-reducing plants organised by the Go Green team at the Duty Free Global head office, December 2019 (Paris-La Défense, France).
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20 employees make up the Go Green team, which heads up environmental initiatives at Duty Free Global in France.
Vegetable crops shared between employees of the Hachette Livre head office (Vanves, France).
MANON RAYNAL
CSR officer, Lagardère group
Green afterwork events and zero waste on the menu for employees with the LL Network
Now a true “ideas laboratory”, the LL Network offers its members the opportunity to discuss topical issues with a societal impact, such as sustainable development.
The network started by allowing Group employees who have long been committed to the matter, both in their personal lives and their professional lives, to speak during a green afterwork event.
the introduction to their building of growing trays for flowers and aromatic plants, as well as fruits and vegetables. These two great advocates of biodiversity were able to raise awareness among employees at the site by getting them to (re)discover forgotten species. The Go Green team from Lagardère Travel Retail, put together on the initiative of Vanina Poquet (see focus page 24) at Duty Free Global based in La Défense, also came to talk about its efforts
to raise awareness on the ground.
Following the success of this afterwork event, the LL Network organised another two workshops on the subject:
- a workshop during the 2019 annual day that helped to raise awareness about the circular economy and factor this concept into business lines by means of practical case studies;
- a zero waste breakfast with the authors of the new Larousse collection entitled Les Cahiers du consomm’acteur, and La Recyclerie, partner of the first work, who led a workshop on making tawashi sponges from odd socks brought in by participants.
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26,744 kg of office waste sorted, collected and recycled at Lagardère Travel Retail France in partnership with adapted company Cèdre in 2019.