The Navigator Company offsets carbon emissions of 2017 Web Summit

The Navigator Company, the leading operator in the pulp and paper sector, and the Web Summit, the world’s largest digital technology event, have reached agreement on a partnership on Sustainability issues.

As the Web Summit Carbon Offsetting Partner, Navigator will offset the event’s carbon dioxide emissions by planting 95,000 pine trees in central Portugal, enough to neutralise all the event’s emissions, including air travel by more than 60,000 visitors, in addition to eliminating nonrecyclable consumables during the summit, by using biodegradable paper cups and receptacles which are 100% recyclable.

According to António Quirino Soares, Marketing Director at The Navigator Company, “we approached the Web Summit with our idea for a partnership, which is something the event has never done before. Our aim is promote virgin fibre paper as a sustainable and environmentally friendly product, reaching out to a young, urban and technologyfocused audience. It is important to bring home to these target groups that the more paper we produce, the more forests will be planted to serve the environment, and that the growing use of packaging to support our existing consumption model needs organisations like The Navigator Company which produce paper from virgin fibre, which can then feed the recycling cascade until it gets incorporated into the packaging that finds its way into all our homes.”

Navigator has been facing up to the challenges of sustainability through its commitment to innovation, by investing in R&D, developing increasingly sustainable products and reusing by-products, in a constant quest for more efficient production methods.
more at:  http://en.thenavigatorcompany.com/var/ezdemo_site/storage/original/application/ed3fb655bf0c35e3bd20cba7ac1a0b39.pdf

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