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Mauritius: collecting used mobile phones and batteries
Mauritius Telecom has undertaken a mobile and battery collection step by establishing a partnership with a local contractor and NGO. This collection will be carried out first at the 19 Orange sales points on the island, and will be extended on a second occasion to 200 collection points - without any organised channel existing on the island).


Orange involves the participation of its employees in Poland
Our Polish TP subsidiary organised an "ECO Contest" in order to collect and highlight environmental innovations thought up by the employees. The winning proposal consists in encouraging the use of bikes, in particular through places where the employees can safely leave their bikes. Moreover, the effort was applied to the growing use of low consumption bulbs, which allow significant energy savings.


the Group is acknowledged as a "Green IT Leader 2009" in Poland
On September 30th of this year, TP Group - the Polish Orange company - was elected "Green IT leader 2009" by the magazine Computer World, in recognition of its constant efforts and its professionalism in the deployment of computer solutions and telecommunications respecting the environment. More than 80 Polish companies of various areas (banks, telecommunications, IT) competed for the prize this year.


virtualised servers
In the deployment phase in our main European entities, the Eco-centers program has already allowed more than 6,000 servers to be "virtualised" in France and more than 600 in Poland. It has thus prevented the emission of more than 700 tonnes of CO2 in these two countries.


energy savings thanks to ventilation
The backbone of our business, our telecommunications network works with electronic equipment housed in technical premises, which produce a lot of heat. Our studies conducted in France and Spain in particular have shown that significant energy savings could be achieved in the cooling process of these rooms. Ventilation systems were thus installed, which reduced energy consumption up to 80%.


deployment of solar stations with the ORYX project
Orange's installation of mobile stations powered with the help of solar generators aims at reconciling 3 needs: the reduction of operating costs; service quality improvement; commitment to a sustainable development policy. With this program, the Group increases mobile coverage in rural areas while answering the objective established to reduce its CO2 emissions by 20% before 2020. This deployement will also contribute to meeting the commitment to raise up to 25% the part of solar source in the energy consumption of the Group in the AMEA region in 2015.


Orange Spain awarded by Energy Trophy +
The competition Energy Trophy +, which rewards the actions of companies in favour of energy savings, awarded "the best awareness campaign" prize to our campaign in Spain.


more efficient shops
A study was led in 2008 to identify the improvements to be achieved in energy savings in the Orange shops in France. Pilot shops will test the illumination or air-conditioning solutions which we have defined.


compensation for pollution in Belgium
Our Mobistar subsidiary set up a pollution compensation system, "CO2 Logic", the objective of which is to compensate CO2 emissions which cannot be prevented through the purchase of carbon credits. These credits are then used to finance CO2 emission reduction actions in developing countries.