Global Reporting Initiative

Tópicos materiais - Environment

Since the majority of our operations are retail-based, we have no major impact in water use, which is limited to employee consumption, personal hygiene, and cleaning of our units (RD Saúde Campus, DCs, and pharmacies). Therefore, our interaction with water is not intensive, without any consumption directed to production or industrial processes and with supply made by public water utilities, water trucks and, in two DCs (Embu and São José dos Pinhais), through an artesian well. Even so, we maintain monitoring metrics and carry out infrastructure adequacy and team awareness actions, with the goal of reducing water use and consumption. Since 2022, we have replaced all sanitary devices at the RD Saúde Campus in search of greater efficiency, and in 2023, we implemented a water reuse system also at the RD Saúde Campus. Our DCs in Guarulhos and Gravataí already had this technology.