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– Case Study – Compliance Overview
StarHub was not fined or sanctioned for any non-
Signed compliance with environmental laws or regulations removal of Strategy
during FY2014.
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Employee Awareness
On 16 September 2014, an MOU was signed between As part of our efforts to raise awareness of environmental from the StarHub
DHL, StarHub and TES-AMM to expand StarHub’s issues amongst StarHub employees, 32 of them went Green office
e-waste recycling programme as RENEW, short for on an exclusive tour of TES-AMM's electronic waste that were sent
REcycling Nation’s Electronic Waste. The MOU signing recycling facilities. This helped to shed insight on the for recycling
was witnessed by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister post-collection process of the RENEW Programme. to discourage
for the Environment and Water Resources, at The general waste and
Environment Building. We also took 46 StarHubbers on an eco-awareness promote a recycling
journey to Bollywood Veggies, where they learnt about behaviour amongst
The partnership was borne of DHL, StarHub and local flora and homeopathic remedies and recipes. employees.
TES-AMM’s shared belief in being environmentally
responsible corporate citizens. In line with the Just before Singapore’s Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Performance
Singapore Government’s People-Public-Private closed for two years of maintenance, we organised a
approach to tackling environmental issues, the three guided tour of the park for 61 StarHub staff to learn
organisations decided to join forces, with the support more about our country’s natural ecosystem.
of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources
and National Environment Agency, to provide even more Earth Hour 2014 Governance
opportunities for the public to recycle their e-waste. For Earth Hour 2014, StarHub rolled out new carrier
bags composed of the polymer polypropylene, which Financials
StarHub sources for locations interested in having a is more convenient and durable than the former paper
RENEW bin, and engages a supplier to produce and bags. This allows the bags, which come in three sizes,
provide bins to these locations. DHL manages the to be used post-purchase as a carrier bag for other
logistics of collecting and delivering the e-waste from items. The bags are also clearly labelled with the
all the bins to TES-AMM’s e-waste recycling facility. Recycling Code 5 symbol, to help recyclers identify the
TES-AMM then recycles the e-waste. specific type of recycling required.
The aim was to expand from 30 bin locations to 100
bin locations by the end of 2014. By 31 December
2014, there were 103 bin locations and 8.7 tonnes of
electronic waste were collected for recycling in 2014.
01. StarHub employees learnt how to
cook and eat healthy.
02. From left: Herbert Vongpusanachai
(DHL), Minister Vivian Balakrishnan
(MEWR), Tan Tong Hai (StarHub)
and Scott Mac Meekin (TES-AMM)
celebrating the launch of RENEW.
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