Green C Project – Hotel and Catering Business

Gijon Chamber of Commerce has set up the Green C Project.
It is an initiative designed to raise the Hotel and Catering sector’s awareness in environmental issues, throught distinction of the most eco-friendly businesses with the label “Environmentally Friendly Business” .
- Aims:
- Offering the enterprises several techniques to make an efficient use of energy, in view of achieving remarkable reductions in consumption and significant economic savings.
- Making compliance with current legislation easier.
- Having information about authorized waste materials managers at one’s disposal.
- Lowering costs of waste materials management.
- Minimizing waste material generation
- Lowering water consumption
- Intermediate meetings with the different agents involved (Cogersa, EMA, Hidroeléctrica...) in order to analyze the current situation.
- Improving the business’ image.
- Increasing the customers’ fidelity and confidence.
- Increasing the personnel’s motivation, participation and satisfaction.
- Obtaining a label or seal that honors all those eco-friendly businesses.
- Methodology::
- Being familiarized with the different businesses’ starting situation with regard to:
- Material resources used
- Efficient energy management
- Efficient water management
- Waste materials management
- Noise management
- Efficient resource management (consumables)
- Crossed meetings with different agents involved.
- Supplying some basic recommendations in environmental issues to businesses.
- Presentation of the fair practices catalogue and handing over of badges to the participant businesses.
- Lenght of the Project: October 2008 to May 2009
- Subsidized up to 90%
- Final cost per business: 160€ + VAT
- Registration: until 22nd October 2008
- Payment form: Registration Bulletin plus bank deposit receipt. Bank Account Number 2048 0003 64 3400012017 (Cajastur Bank), holder: Gijon Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation. Concept: Name, Surname and “Green C Project”. This receipt can be sent to the following e-mail address or fax number:
- Fax: 985 180 106 (Att: Susana López Díaz-Caneja / Att: Paloma García Fernández)
- E-mai: slcaneja@camaragijon.com
- Requirements for participation:r:
- Being a SME
- Having the business located in Gijon.
- Sector: Hotel and Catering Business.
- Registration: You can apply online, filling in the following form. download here.

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