Our role at PwC is to build trust in society and solve important problems. The care of our environment, and issues of sustainability, are therefore at the core of who we are, and how we aspire to operate. To reinforce this trust and lead by example, we need to start with ourselves.
Year on year we aim to limit our impact on the environment, and we look for ways to give back to the community. Our ‘Green committee’ meets regularly throughout the year, and is charged with monitoring and reducing our environmental impact, while coming up with new initiatives for the firm as a whole. Furthermore, the firm’s Sustainability Advisory Services team helps our clients better manage ongoing environmental and social issues by raising awareness and providing key insight and knowledge.
What we've done
- Reducing waste
- Green Energy
- Green contributions and events
Reducing waste
Last year, the Green Committee took the initiative to substantially reduce our usage of polystyrene. We are proud to say that PwC Malta is now completely polystyrene free. The introduction of glasses and mugs across all floors and departments means that staff and clients do not drink from single-use cups while on PwC premises.
We also remain committed to reducing paper usage, and a number of initiatives have been undertaken over the last year. All meeting rooms, board rooms and partners’ offices are equipped with full HD TVs, with the aim of reducing the need for printing documents when presenting or discussing during the respective meetings.. Initiatives to drive the use of online platforms and digital documents have allowed our people to collaborate digitally and reduce paper usage. Over the last year, the firm worked collaboratively using 12,500 digital documents, thus allowing us to go a long way in reducing our paper consumption.
We remain committed to the separation of waste, and to promoting recycling efforts, by increasing the availability of special purpose bins across the firm.
Green Energy
Last year saw the installation of 310 PV panels on the roof of the staff parking building. This project will produce an estimated output of 146,000 units per year, helping us generate clean energy. It is expected that these panels will become operational in the coming months.
This year the firm invested in an electric vehicle (EV) for the trips and deliveries made on a daily basis. We are proud of our first EV courier van, intended to reduce our emissions and carbon footprint accordingly.
Green contributions and events
We continue to participate in the GreenPak scheme through the collection of plastic bottle caps. Over the last year, over 42kg of battle caps were collected with the help of our staff. The scheme led to the Greenpak donating €21,000 to the Malta Community last year from nationwide collections, and we are proud to have contributed to this initiative.
The firm organised, and participated, in two events in the last year. In February 2019 we teamed up with a local NGO, and planted over 50 Tamarisk trees at the Pembroke Natura 2000 site. The aim of the event was to raise awareness about the importance of trees, and to partially offset the environmental impact of our paper usage.
In April 2019, we helped with the clean-up at Qalet Marku in Bahar ic-Caghaq, an event that was attended by over 70 employees - a small step to help protect and keep our beautiful islands clean. We successfully collected 500kg of landfill waste as well as 20 bags of recyclable materials.
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