Sustainability - Hanaholmen

Sustainable Travel Finland & EcoCompass

Hanaholmen has been granted the Sustainable Travel Finland and EcoCompass certificates, which demonstrate a commitment to environmental work and the goal of constantly reducing Hanaholmen´s environmental impact.

The Sustainable Travel Finland program is a sustainable tourism development path and a label, providing travel trade and travelers an easy way to identify a tourism actor that takes sustainability seriously.

The requirements of the EcoCompass certificate cover aspects such as energy and water consumption, waste management, sustainable procurement and the use of chemicals.

Our responsible environmental policy is reflected in, for example, the following choices:

we have switched from oil heating to district heating, which is produced with 100 % renewable fuels or waste heat
a solar power plant, which during the summer months produces up to 15 % of the electricity needed
our cleaning products from a Finnish supplier (Kiilto) have the Nordic Swan Ecolabel
our food concept utilises organic products (e.g. all our flour and eggs, organic lamb) as well as Finnish mushrooms and berries, and involves cooperation with local producers (e.g. certified organic Bosgård meat from natural pastures)
our own fisherman who brings fresh fish to the restaurant from the surrounding waters

In addition,

we use a Finnish service provider for washing our hotel and restaurant textiles
we have significantly reduced the amount of wastepaper by changing our printing and archiving methods and utilising electronic systems
we use pecu switches for our outdoor lighting and have increased the use of motion detectors in our indoor lighting
all our outdoor lights and most of our indoor lights are LEDs (for example, 95% at restaurant PLATS)

With EcoCompass, we are also committed to developing and improving our environmental work. Our future development projects include further reducing the amount of wasted food.

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ECOCOMPASS CRITERIA

We are committed to complying with environmental laws and regulations applicable to our operations.

Hanaholmen has a designated, trained employee responsible for environmental matters.

We organise an environmental assessment to chart the current situation and the most significant environmental impacts.

We are committed to reducing environmental impacts in accordance with our environmental policy and the principle of continuous improvement.

We instruct our employees to take environmental issues into account in their operations.

We act according to our waste management plan and regional waste management regulations.

We keep a record of our hazardous waste and process it correctly.

We store and list all our used chemicals in accordance with the requirements of chemical legislation and handle them correctly.

We prepare an environmental programme every year, containing goals and measures to reduce our environmental impacts.

We report the fulfilment and key figures of our environmental programme and its related measures every year. The management and employees are aware of the progress of our environmental work.