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Unit 10: International Financial Institutions-II

Waste & recycling in fy 20009 amounts collected notes
160 pounds technotrash, 371 pounds batteries
IFC small-item “Recycling Center”
diverted from landfill
Cardboard recycling 24 tons of cardboard diverted from landfill
Paper, glass, plastic and aluminum recycling 176 tons of paper 3.6 tons of glass, plastic, and
efforts aluminum diverted from landfill
Sold 600 desk chairs for re-use, and recycled Estimated 42 tons furniture diverted from
65,850 pounds of office furniture landfill Pantry-faucet flow reduction
Estimated 5 tons of electronic equipment
Recycled 1,031 PCs
diverted from landfill
48 tons of carpet material diverted from
Recycled 95,700 pounds of carpet
landfill
carbon footprint
Emissions from IFC’s D.C. operations represent about half of IFC’s overall corporate
impact. IFC has been carbon-neutral for all its D.C. operations since 2006. This has been

achieved through:
l Calculating greenhouse-gas emissions from internal business operations, which
includes staff air travel, electricity used by the D.C. office, fuel use for vehicles and
machinery and natural gas and refrigerants used.

l Reducing carbon emissions through familiar and innovative energy-saving
measures
l Purchasing carbon “offsets” for emissions that cannot be reduced

food service
The World Bank Group’s food service provider, Restaurant Associates, was chosen
partly because of their environmentally preferable products and services. This includes
“greener” disposables like potato-based utensils, post-consumer paper containers, and
post-consumer fiber cups; fair trade, organic coffee; transfat-free oils; rBGH-free dairy
items; seafood purchases based on the Monterey Bay Aquarium Sustainable Seafood
Watchlist; cagefree eggs; and organic items, where available. Surplus food is donated to
D.C. Central Kitchen.
“10-minute tune up”
In 2009, the Footprint Program launched the “10-Minute Tune Up,” with the goal of
sharing simple ways IFC staff could use resources more efficiently while at work—in a
quick 10 minutes. The Tune Up is implemented in each department (“desk-by-desk”) by a
team of Footprint Champions, who go through a checklist of succinct, simple suggestions
and help staff make easy one-time changes (such activating energy-saving features on
their computers). Each “Tuned Up” staff person receives an emblem for their desk and is
entered into a raffle for prizes. In this program’s first year, over 800 staff (almost 30%) were
“Tuned Up,” including many senior-level staff.

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