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Initiatives
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Initiatives

No Paper Week

QFZA staff are encouraged to reduce physical printing of documents and revert to digital versions for the duration of Qatar Sustainbility Week. The total printing jobs will be measured to showcase the impact of reducing physical printing across QFZ offices over a 1-week period.

Reduce and Reuse

LuLu stores in Qatar will encourage their customers to reduce the usage of plastic bags in selected stores by offering their customers biodegradable paper bags and free recyclable bags in some stores at certain times which will be announced.

They will also have the option whereby their customers can borrow a recyclable bag from LuLu stores to help cut down plastic waste and lower the carbon footprint, thus avoid pollution due to wastage and land fills.

Tree planting initiative

Carrefour employees in collaboration with the Ministry of Municipality and Environment Public Gardens Department will take part in a tree planting campaign to support efforts to combat climate change and promote environmental sustainability, which will be held on Oct 27.

Recycle and Reduce food waste

As a part of Lulu's continuous improvement plan in furthering their goal towards sustainability and environmental protection Lulu Hypermarket in their bin Mahmoud store has invested and partnered with a service provider who offered an innovative food waste solution ORCA .

ORCA technology simply mimics a natural digestion process by creating a thermophilic environment for the microorganisms governed by ORCA and biochips to digest food waste into liquid which is filtered safely through a 0.5mm screen into the existing drainage system.