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Doha
Lulu Hypermarket Qatar has joined hands with the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) by participating in its ‘One Million Trees Initiative’ on the sidelines of the World Environment Day.
To promote the ministry’s initiative and to communicate the message about the importance of protecting the nature, Lulu Hypermarket will plant trees in the garden aisles of its parking grounds and distribute plants to its shoppers.
Sustainability is one its key priorities at Lulu, not just as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) but part of its commitment to the community.
Recently, Lulu Hypermarket had implemented the energy optimisation and reduction of carbon footprint initiative on its central AC units, freezers and chillers starting with its Alkhor Mall Project. These energy optimisation and predictive maintenance measures have saved approximately 566,000 Kw of energy in a span of three months. This is equivalent of saving 401 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, gas emissions of 87 passenger vehicles driven for one year, gas emissions of 1,008,080 miles driven by an average passenger vehicle, carbon sequestered by 6,633 trees seedlings grown for 10 years and carbon sequestered by 491 acres of the US forests in one year.
It is widely claimed that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to urgently reduce emissions. Keeping this in view, Lulu Group has focused on reducing carbon emissions from its operations by investing in waste management hierarchy.
To monitor progress, the group has focused on recycling of paper and cardboards, collection of waste oil and disposal of food wastage through ORCA waste disposal system.
Lulu Group had introduced both biodegradable shopping bags and given customers the option of using reusable shopping bags. Lulu also introduced a ‘borrow a bag’ programme to encourage customers to think about reusable bags. It also works with its local and international suppliers to reduce packaging and encourage recycling.
Lulu Hypermarket Qatar was recently certified as the first retailer in MENA to achieve sustainable operations certification under the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS) from the Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (GORD).
The project achieved an overall score of 1.51 after audit by the sustainability experts from GSAS Trust and GORD Labs, which corresponds to a ‘GOLD’ rating under the GSAS Operations certification.
In observance of the World Environment Day, Lulu has come out with offers on LED lights with a view to conserve energy. As part of promoting the usage of LED Lights, Lulu Hypermarket will give away an energy saver LED bulb to shoppers, who buy supermarket items for a sum of QR100 and above until June 6.
Doha
Lulu Hypermarket Qatar has joined hands with the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) by participating in its ‘One Million Trees Initiative’ on the sidelines of the World Environment Day.
To promote the ministry’s initiative and to communicate the message about the importance of protecting the nature, Lulu Hypermarket will plant trees in the garden aisles of its parking grounds and distribute plants to its shoppers.
Sustainability is one its key priorities at Lulu, not just as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) but part of its commitment to the community.
Recently, Lulu Hypermarket had implemented the energy optimisation and reduction of carbon footprint initiative on its central AC units, freezers and chillers starting with its Alkhor Mall Project. These energy optimisation and predictive maintenance measures have saved approximately 566,000 Kw of energy in a span of three months. This is equivalent of saving 401 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, gas emissions of 87 passenger vehicles driven for one year, gas emissions of 1,008,080 miles driven by an average passenger vehicle, carbon sequestered by 6,633 trees seedlings grown for 10 years and carbon sequestered by 491 acres of the US forests in one year.
It is widely claimed that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to urgently reduce emissions. Keeping this in view, Lulu Group has focused on reducing carbon emissions from its operations by investing in waste management hierarchy.
To monitor progress, the group has focused on recycling of paper and cardboards, collection of waste oil and disposal of food wastage through ORCA waste disposal system.
Lulu Group had introduced both biodegradable shopping bags and given customers the option of using reusable shopping bags. Lulu also introduced a ‘borrow a bag’ programme to encourage customers to think about reusable bags. It also works with its local and international suppliers to reduce packaging and encourage recycling.
Lulu Hypermarket Qatar was recently certified as the first retailer in MENA to achieve sustainable operations certification under the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS) from the Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (GORD).
The project achieved an overall score of 1.51 after audit by the sustainability experts from GSAS Trust and GORD Labs, which corresponds to a ‘GOLD’ rating under the GSAS Operations certification.
In observance of the World Environment Day, Lulu has come out with offers on LED lights with a view to conserve energy. As part of promoting the usage of LED Lights, Lulu Hypermarket will give away an energy saver LED bulb to shoppers, who buy supermarket items for a sum of QR100 and above until June 6.
