OREANDA-NEWS. April 28, 2010. Dedicated to the Environment Day, which is celebrated annually by the international community on April 18, PAT Concern Khlibprom summarized the work in the direction of environmental and energy saving. So last year and first quarter of 2010 two leaders of Concern Khlibprom — Lviv bakery number 5 and Vinnytsyahlib junked about 14 tons of paper for recycling. Converting these parameters to the resources we have succeeded in saving 238 trees, 364 thousand liters of water and gasoline and 56 thousand kilowatt-hours of electricity *.

In 2009 Lviv bakery number 5 junked about 8 tons of waste paper, and Vinnytsyahlib — 6 tons of paper and 1.5 tons of PET empties. In addition, according to legislation production units of the concern regularly junk for utilization confectionery packaging, used tires, oil, fluorescent lamps, etc.

According to Head of general service department Galina S. Borinets the bakery № 5 began to sort waste paper and junk for recyclig in July 2008. First, these are paper boxes from raw materials, used office paper, documents, expired of archive storage, etc. Also it plans to start sorting and junk of polyethylene packaging.

Since 2009, the concern began implementing the program "Green Office" to promote energy- and water-saving consumption. During this time, the enterprises of Concern Khlibprom also implemented several projects aimed at energy saving and rational use of natural resources. Environmental ideology promoted by the company is also spread by employees through their own apartments and their attitude to the environment outside of work.

According to official estimates, if ton of paper is recycled again it can save 17 adult trees, 26 thousand liters of water, three cubic meters of land fertility, 240 liters of fuel, 4000 kilowatt hours of electricity. For second paper recycling it is used almost half as much power than for its primary production of wood, while emissions are reduced by more than 70%.