Environmental sustainability
Indesit Company has built up an environmental culture that it shares increasingly with its stakeholders in the firm conviction that respect for the environment is not only a basic moral value but also a strategic factor in the competitiveness and sustainability of its business model.
Indesit Company promotes various initiatives and projects to guarantee respect for the environment and meet the needs of stakeholders: it monitors compliance with national and international environmental legislation; it organizes programmes to reduce consumption of energy, waste and pollutant emissions to minimize the environmental impact of products and production processes; it develops products on the basis of their entire life cycle to facilitate collection and recycling; it encourages research into new technologies and services for the home, to reduce consumption and improve the quality of life; it involves and informs all levels of the Company in support of lasting, sustainable development; it guarantees that working conditions and the workplace in general are safe and as comfortable as possible; it establishes relationships with suppliers that help them adopt responsible environmental policies.
Indesit’s priority treatment of sustainability issues is reflected in its participation in employers associations. For example:
- it is a founder of CECED Italia (Italian association of domestic and professional appliance manufacturers) which contributes to the awareness of citizens and institutions on issues of environmental protection, energy saving and protection of consumers;
- it is a founder member of several consortiums in Europe managing the disposal of end-of-cycle products (WEEE), including ECODOM (Italian white goods makers waste disposal consortium), which it currently chairs, established to stop polluting or otherwise hazardous substances being abandoned in the environment and maximize recovery of materials to recycle in production processes.
