2022.10.26
In order to realize a sustainable society, GMO Internet Group participates in the Shibuya City cleaning activities, independently carries out cleaning activities, abandons plastics, and reduces food loss at the communication space GMO Yours, promoting efforts related to sustainability in new ways.
We were evaluated for creating ties between people who take action for the environment, such as Shibuya City residents and business operators, through the above-mentioned group-wide sustainability efforts. We won the "Excellence Award" at the Shibuya Sustainable Awards 2022.
GMO Internet Group has created a business group - including 10 listed companies - that comprehensively develops Internet and Finance businesses (which are businesses at the core of the group) with about 5,000 colleagues at the Group's first and second headquarters in Shibuya.
We offer welfare and benefits such as serving food and drink as a measure to provide a comfortable office environment for our colleagues. However, depending on the operational policies and how the welfare facilities are used, our measures may lead to further environmental destruction.
In order to realize a sustainable society, companies must conduct business responsibly.
Because GMO Internet Group is a place where many colleagues gather together, we actively work on social issues, such as plastics and food loss, and strategies that lead to the creation of opportunities for each person to notice a little bit of strangeness in their daily lives and take action.
Our goal is to see our efforts translate into co-creation opportunities for companies and many people by specifically telling them about our efforts as a recipient of the Excellence Award of the "Shibuya Sustainable Awards 2022".
Going forward, GMO Internet Group will continue to contribute to society and people by working to solve issues for a sustainable society, and creating smiles and excitement through coexistence with local communities.
Conducted by partners (employees) of group companies in the areas around the first and second headquarters, which are Shibuya Cerulean Tower and Shibuya FUKURAS, respectively.
Abandoned plastic straws, cups, bags, lunch boxes, etc., which were offered at GMO Yours. Achieved an approximately 93% reduction in plastic waste compared to before the start of the initiative.
In the TABLE FOR TWO and CUP FOR TWO programs, every time a meal that controls the calories to prevent obesity and lifestyle diseases is bought, a donation of JPY 20 per meal is used to pay for school meals for developing countries' children. Menus compatible with the above programs are offered at GMO Yours.
In addition to ethical coffee and fair trade tea, in September 2022 GMO Internet Group launched a lunch menu including sustainable seafood.
Lunch menus offered at GMO Yours are reservation-only to reduce food waste. We implement various strategies to reduce food loss, such as the Zero Food Loss Campaign during World Food Day Month and initiatives at the food bank.
Vaccines were given not only to partners of GMO Internet Group but also to their families, business partners, and people in the shopping district of the Shibuya area.
Going forward, GMO Internet Group will continue to contribute to local revitalization at each office nationwide - focusing on Shibuya City - and work toward a sustainable society.