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“To create a better everyday life for the many people”
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Sustainable lifestyle
- IKEA produces affordable products which allow users to use less energy at home and reduce waste
- Energy consuming products now 32% more efficient than they were in 2008
- Dishwaters in general are 51% more efficient than they were in 2008
- Sells only energy efficient lighting which uses 85% less electricity compared to incandescent
Reduce resource dependency for energy
- IKEA has been protecting resources, converting waste into resources and using renewable energy
- Currently 91% of materials used in IKEA products are recyclable. Aims to get this up to 100% by 2015.
- Wood sourced from suppliers meet IWAY Forestry Standard and aims to source all wood from forests certified by Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
- Collaboration with WWF and Better Cotton Initiative to make cotton farming sustainable.
- €1.5 billion investment in renewable energy with focus on wind and solar.
- Currently have 250,000 solar panel and 83 wind turbines in operation.
Community development
- Improving life of IKEA’s co-workers, suppliers and communities from around the world
- Increased proportion of women in management to 47%
- IKEA Foundation donated €82 million to children in developing countries
- Soft Toy for education campaign raised €11.4 million, for every soft toy sold IKEA donates €1
- Partners include UNIICEF and Save the Children with 100 million children benefiting
- Provides 80 million children vitamin supplements and vaccines through IKEA foundation
- IKEA donates a solar cell lamp for each sale of the lamp to developing countries to promote education. So far 500,000 have been sold
- The foundation also contributes to emergency relief worldwide such as Haiti earthquake.
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