109 Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report 2017 | PRISA the environment throughout their entire life cycle. These principles state that: • PRISA will comply with all applicable legal requirements, and will, whenever possible, make every effort to anticipate them. • The group will actively strive to reduce and prevent pollution and waste, and to conserve energy in all its operations. • The group will require its suppliers to conduct their operations in an environmentally res-ponsible manner. • The group will ensure the safety of industrial operations to avoid any negative impact on the environment. paper, thus guaranteeing that controls are being carried out at the various stages of the production process. Santillana, for instance, requires all its suppliers in the US to be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Sustainable Forestry Initia-tive (SFI). What’s more, its principal logistics su-pplier (Pilot) is certified by the EPA (Environment Protection Agency (EPA), within the SmartWay Transport program. PRISA ensures responsible management at all sta-ges of the lifecycle of paper. In Spain and Portugal, the management of paper is centralized and, as shown in the chart illustrating the paper lifecycle, Consumption (ton) % recycled or recovered Renewable Material 2016 2016 Paper1, 2 78.860,10 53 Si Cardboard3 352,04 100 Si Ink4 681,8 - No Aluminum plates5 161 35 No Adhesive 6 33 100 Si Consumption 1Paper purchased directly by PRISA. 2 Paper: Consumption in all countries. 3 Cardboard: Consumption in Argentina, Brazil, Spain and Portugal. 4 Ink: Consumption in Peru, Portugal, Dominican Republic and the rest of business units. 5 Aluminum plates: Consumption in Spain. 6 Adhesives: Consumption in Brazil. This policy is divided into three levels of action: 1. Consumption control 1.1. Consumption of material The most significant consumption of the Group is associated with printing operations. As can be seen in the following table, the most significant material for PRISA, in this regard, is of paper and paperboard/cardboard. PRISA’s suppliers must comply with certain mini-mum legal environmental requirements in the ma-nufacture of paper, and most of them possess the capacity to produce PEFC and FSC accredited
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