Trienekens wins 7th Chief Minister’s Environmental Award
KUCHING: Trienekens (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd, the operating company of the state’s integrated waste management system ( IWMS) won at the 7th Sarawak Chief Minister’s Environmental Award 2015/2016 (CMEA) under the Large Enterprise ( Services and Other Sectors) category on Wednesday.
Its chairman Jurgen Pickenhagen was on hand to receive the award from Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg during the award presentation ceremony here.
“We are deeply honoured to receive this prestigious award. It is a significant achievement that highlights our company’s strong commitment and ongoing dedication to contribute towards a clean and healthy Sarawak for the people of Sarawak,” he said, and expressed his gratitude to the state government for recognising Trienekens’ efforts.
In this increasingly environmental ly- conscious world, Pickenhagen said that businesses had a growing ethical and moral obligation to protect the environment.
“Indeed, the theme of this year’s CMEA ‘ Environmental Stewardship Begins With Me’, has never been so opportune as it is our (whether as a business or an individual) responsibility to protect the environment.
“We at Trienekens have always worked along a similar objective by promoting green practices to our team members and encouraging our business associates including our contractors, suppliers and customers to do the same.”
Pickenhagen noted that the company viewed staff awareness and participation essential in the understanding of basic environment and human rights, besides also fostering a great sense of responsibility for proactive environmental citizenship.
“By actively involving our team members in environmental education, awareness and training programmes, we hope to effectively provide a forum for sharing ideas and findings with our team members as well as creating a better sense of environmental ownership..
He added that with the award, Trienekens was encouraged to work closer with all the relevant agencies and members of the community to deliver better and higher standard of waste management services.
“Together, we can invest in a greener and cleaner future for Sarawak..
Consistent with its business operations, Trienekens has also been actively promoting better environmental awareness and education among children through its special recycling programme, which introduces the 5Rs ( Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink and Repair) concept to participating primary and secondary schools.
Ultimately, the programme aims to inculcate habitual sorting of solid waste at source by engaging both students and staff to practise segregating their school waste from the point- ofgeneration.