The DIXY chain of stores has computed the mass of waste products delivered to be recycled in 2015 – over the 12 months the stores delivered over 39,000 tons of waste paper, thereby saving 650,000 trees. In addition, the chain’s environmental protection initiatives, under an agreement with a corporate partner, a town in Kaluga Oblast has been heated over the past two years, among other things, by using sawdust delivered by DIXY free of charge.

Non-reusable packaging materials made of cardboard, paper, wood and plastic is collected on a daily basis from all the stores and delivered to recycling points located in DIXY distribution centers. There, these materials undergo preliminary processing, get pressed or fragmented and then delivered as secondary waste for recycling and reprocessing. Aside from waste paper, in 2015 DIXY delivered 2, 6 thousand tons of plastic and cellophane packing for reprocessing.

In addition to its own effort to collect waste the chain seeks to involve its customers into solutions to environmental protection problems. Over the past year, the containers deployed for separately collect particular types of waste close to “neighborhood” stores in Moscow City and Moscow Oblast, the residents of nearby buildings have helped collect more than 21 tons of waste to be recycled – glass, aluminum and plastic.

“DIXY continues to uphold the environmental protection principles by implementing ecological initiatives for nature protection and rational use of resources. The overwhelming majority of the materials used in the operation of our stores are subject to recycling and can serve people yet again,” says Ekaterina Kumanina, Public Relations and Government Affairs Director of DIXY Group.