Low Plastic Location
TANDEM Köln is recognized as a 'Low Plastic Location':
- Throughout the school we pay attention to waste separation.
- The school is supplied with electricity from renewable sources (wind, sun, water).
- The furniture in offices, classrooms and guest rooms is completely without plastic.
- Office materials are ordered ecologically sustainable at memo.de (recycled and mostly plastic-free products in a reusable shipping system).
- Plastic items are used until they are broken or unusable. For new purchases, we make sure that they contain no plastic if possible.
- Drinks for employees and our customers come from a permanently installed water dispenser or reusable bottles.
- TANDEM Köln is a refill station. Drinking bottles that you bring with you can be refilled at our station - even if you are not taking a language course.
Links
- http://www.plastic-planet.de
- "Plastic Fasting" and other anti plastic campaigns with BUND (Der Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e. V.; German Association for the Protection of Nature and Environment)
- Green Paper on a European strategy for plastic waste in the environment
- https://refill-deutschland.de/
Environmentally friendly travel
- Course participants from abroad who travel by train or have compensated the CO2 emissions of their flight accordingly, pay only a reduced registration fee of 25 EUR (- 50%). For long-distance flights this fee is waived completely!
- For business trips we use the train, for international trips by plane we offset the CO2 emissions via www.atmosfair.de.
- Our employees* have the opportunity to obtain a discounted job ticket for public transport.
