Waste Management

Different initiatives have allowed to decrease the total amount of waste by employee from 244 kg in 2016 to 150 kg in 2018. (1) Implementation of an advanced sorting and recycling centre: The centre sorts paper, aluminum cans and coffee capsules, plastic bottles and caps, WEEE, and glass waste. The Organisations recycles about 60% of its waste. All food waste from the restaurants is recycled into biogas; while undifferentiated waste is incinerated to produce heat (0% goes to landfill). (2) Design of new waste bins to ease waste sorting: New trash bins with different colours and shapes for each type of waste were installed. The new design eases the correct allocation of waste, resulting in a recycling rate increase. (3) "Bring your own mug and pay less for your coffee" initiative: Since 2014, the OECD has saved the equivalent of 5.5 tonnes of paper cups waste by staff bringing their own mugs. This corresponds to 51k€ of savings for staff. (4) Installation of water fountains in Conference Centre have saved over 575k plastic bottles since 2014. Today the Conference Centre is a single-use plastic-free space: all plastic cups were replaced with paper, and no plastic bottles are distributed, resulting in a reduction of 90k plastic bottles per year.