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SriLankan Catering: approach to environmental excellence

SriLankan Catering's success in protecting the environment stands out as a role model among corporate houses around the world as to what an organisation can achieve in conservation and corporate social responsibility.

The national carrier's airline catering subsidiary has through a concerted effort blazed a pioneering trail in energy conservation, recycling, disposal of waste products, and environmental awareness among its employees.

Its efforts have won global and national recognition.

Winner of two Mercury Awards from the International Travel Catering Association in February for its innovations in disposing food waste, SriLankan Catering was also given a National Energy Efficiency Gold Award in 2010 in the large scale state sector category by the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority.

It also holds the ISO 14001:2004 certification for Best Environmental Practices, as well as ISO 9001:2008 for Quality Management Systems, ISO 22000:2005 for Food Safety Management Systems, and HACCP-Codex Alimentarius for Food Safety and Hygiene.

CEO SriLankan Catering Sarath Fernando said, "Our conservation efforts are no flash in the pan.

This organisation has consistently maintained the highest standards in safety, hygiene and efficiency. Two years ago we began a comprehensive program to bring all our operations to the forefront of global conservation standards as well."

The company's efforts to reduce its energy consumption resulted in an extraordinary 40 percent reduction in fuel usage and a 10 percent reduction in electricity consumption between 2009 and 2010.

The company also has a highly successful program for recycling all waste - plastic, polythene, tin, aluminum, food production waste, paper, and glass.

Among its most impressive programs have been the successful conversion of food waste into food for farm animals.

It was SriLankan Catering's pioneering project to become the first airline caterer to use an 'Auto Clave' food sterilisation machine for this purpose that won it two Mercury Awards.

The Auto Clave, which was installed with an investment of Rs. 3.5 million, destroys possible contaminants in the more than one ton of food waste from the used food trays of passengers, a process which saves the company over Rs. 12 million annually on incineration costs.

"Solutions don't need to cost you an arm and a leg. Through this simple machine, we have reduced our food waste disposal cost from Rs. 31 per kilogramme to under Rs. 2 per kilogramme.

 

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