Since 2010 Schibsted has carried out a survey of emissions of greenhouse gases in our principle subsidiaries within the Media Houses Scandinavia business area. The result of these surveys formed the basis of a report to the Carbon Disclosure Project. The Carbon Disclosure Project is an international co-operation between institutional investors which together administer assets of more than $78 billion.
Print
Our newspaper production processes are digital all the way to the printers. Schibsted currently owns six printing plants: Schibsted Trykk in Oslo and Kroonpress in Estonia, two printing plants in Bergen, one in Stavanger and one in Kristiansand.
The printing business is essentially a relatively clean industry. If polluting chemicals are used, the processes take place in closed systems. Source separation processes have been introduced for almost every type of waste. Schibsted Trykk in Nydalen in Oslo now separates as much as 99 percent of its waste. Special waste is collected by approved transport companies and the general volume of waste has been significantly reduced. Waste paper, cardboard, waste products from paper reels and undistributed newspapers account for as much as 96 percent of the total waste volume.
The printing plant in Nydalen is a member Grønt Punkt, a waste recovery and recycling company, and pays an environmental fee that ensures the proper treatment of all packaging and the supervision of external suppliers. The printing plant has also begun the approval process for using the Nordic Eco-label.
Schibsted’s newspaper companies in Norway and Sweden arrange for the collection of unsold newspapers for recycling.
Kungsbrohuset
In January 2011, Schibsted Sweden and most of Schibsted’s Swedish subsidiaries moved into the Kungsbrohuset office complex (pictured above) by Stockholm Central Station. From an environmental perspective, the Kungsbrohuset has been called the world’s most modern office building, due in part to the choice of materials, the use of surplus body heat from passengers in the station area and the use of cooling water from the Klara Canal.
In partnership with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, a large-scale, two-phase study of Schibsted Sweden’s energy consumption and environmental impact is being conducted, both before and after the move into Kungsbrohuset. The aim of the project is to investigate how great an environmental impact Schibsted Sweden has and how the moving process can affect this in a positive way. Particular focus will be on the premises, transport and business travel, including commuter travel to and from work.
The first phase of the study is expected to be completed in the autumn of 2010 and the second phase should be completed in 2012.