Operations in the media business do not involve any major environmental impact. Each of SanomaWSOY’s divisions is independently responsible for its environmental strategies, as the environmental impact and follow-up targets of SanomaWSOY’s businesses vary greatly. A group-wide environmental team began operations in 2003 to promote the sharing of best environmental practices.
SanomaWSOY’s main providers and users of logistics services are Sanoma, Sanoma Magazines, and Rautakirja. Sanoma’s largest provider of logistics services is Finland Post. Aldipress is the largest distributor of newsstand copies of magazines in the Netherlands, and also handles logistics of Sanoma Uitgevers’ products. In the other countries where Sanoma Magazines operates, deliveries of newsstand copies of magazines and newspapers are handled jointly with other publishers. Rautakirja’s Lehtipiste handles joint deliveries of newsstand copies of magazines and tabloids in Finland.
Sanoma’s printing plants are situated at five different locations in Finland (Vantaa, Forssa, Varkaus, Kouvola, and Lappeenranta). Ilta-Sanomat is partly printed in Oulu.
Deliveries of WSOY books to dealers and bookstores are handled jointly with other book publishers.
Printing plates used in printing plants and waste paper are sorted and recycled for re-use as an industrial raw material. Printing inks are sent to waste disposal plants. Waste paper produced in printing processes is recycled, and constant efforts are made to reduce such wastage.
Rautakirja’s Lehtipiste collects and recycles unsold copies of newspapers and magazines.
In Finland, Rautakirja, Sanoma, and WSOY are members of the Environmental Register of Packaging, PYR Oy. PYR assists member firms and public authorities in meeting the requirements of the EU Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste, and corresponding Finnish legislation, as economically and effectively as possible. In the Netherlands, a joint agreement between industry and the state aims to reduce the usage of packaging materials and encourage the recycling of paper and other materials.
| Paper usage, Tonnes |
2003
|
2002
|
2001
|
| Newsprint |
99 500
|
97 000
|
109 000
|
| Magazine paper |
104 000
|
94 000
|
100 000
|
| Fine and book paper and board |
17 000
|
17 500
|
17 000
|
| Bookbinding board |
1 000
|
1 000
|
1 000
|
| Total |
221 500
|
208 500
|
227 000
|
| *) Includes both the paper used in the Group’s own printing plants and the paper acquired for products printed elsewhere. | |||
| Consumption of electrical energy, MWh |
2003
|
2002
|
2001
|
|
131 054
|
132 335
|
121 132
|
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| *) Consumption sites changed to some extent in 2001 and 2002. | |||