Environment

In addition to managing our own environmental impact and encouraging customers to manage
theirs, we support a number of community environmental initiatives.

Colombia

RSA Colombia is helping restore the local ecology and wildlife in La Poma Ecological Park by planting and caring for trees. To launch the project and get employees involved they held an ‘Ecology Day’ for employees and their families. Over a hundred trees were planted each representing a department, branch or area of the company; creating a great sense of ownership of the project within the company.

Ireland

Two huge containers of office furniture were sent to Sierra Leone, Africa’s least developed nation, according to the UN, to aid the post-civil war reconstruction process thanks to a partnership between RSA Ireland and environmental charity, Green-Works.

RSA Ireland recently merged three of its offices in the Dublin City area and relocated to a new purpose built corporate headquarters in Dundrum, South Dublin. The alliance provided an innovative and sustainable way to ensure RSA’s old office furniture would be used for the benefit of others. RSA’s former offices were stripped out and containers of furniture were delivered to the Ministry of Land in Freetown which stands at the heart of Sierra Leone’s redevelopment and regeneration effort.

The forty foot containers, packed with more than 1000 units of furniture, took around 6 weeks to travel from Dublin to Freetown in West Africa. The remaining furniture in RSA’s former buildings in Dawson Street, Dublin is being redistributed and re-used within communities closer to home.