2024-02-15 16:31:49
Santander Bank saved more than 71 tons of paper last year (which is the equivalent of almost a thousand trees) by eliminating information brochures made with this material in all its offices.
In this way, the entity chaired by Ana Botín progresses in its goal of reducing its environmental footprint, minimizing and managing its waste responsibly, and increasing awareness of environmental problems.
The employees of the offices of Santander Bank They can share all updated information in digital format with clients who need it. Likewise, the entity is digitalizing many operational processes in the branches, which will result in reducing waste, streamlining the contracting and management of products, and improving customer service times and service.
Besides, Santander Bank is reducing paper consumption in the correspondence sent to its clients, providing them with the possibility of receiving their communications digitally through the web application or mobile phone.
Currently, eight million Banco Santander customers in Spain have chosen to receive their correspondence and notices digitally. In this way, the entity chaired by Ana Botín issued 6% fewer letters in Spain in 2023 compared to 2022, which is equivalent to two million envelopes.
Banco Santander has been carbon neutral in Spain since 2020 in its activity, and continues to reduce its environmental impacts and increase compensation for those emissions that it cannot reduce.
In this sense, 100% of the electrical energy it uses comes from renewable sources, it has eliminated single-use plastics, it has obtained the ‘Zero Waste’ certification from AENOR, and last year it reduced its electricity consumption by 493 tons. paper, which represents a cut of 27.5% compared to the 2022 figure and more than 76% compared to 2011, when Banco Santander began the implementation of plans and initiatives to measure and reduce its environmental footprint.
In the words of Marta Aisa, director of Responsible Banking and Sustainability at Santander Spain, «We work every year to reduce the environmental footprint we generate; Reducing paper consumption in our offices is part of our commitment to continue providing the best service to our clients while responsibly managing our environmental footprint. This initiative adds to the set of measures that we have been adopting to ensure that our work environments are respectful of the environment, such as the use of renewable energy, the commitment to zero waste and recovery.
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