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Annual Report 2020

OUR CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY JOURNEY

ENVIRONMENT: EXIM Bank makes conscious efforts to conduct our business
in a safe and environmentally sustainable manner and actively promotes
recycling initiatives among our employees. On-going environmental
campaigns and initiatives throughout the years have inculcated a strong
sense of environmental awareness in our employees.

EXIM FABRIC

RECYCLING MOVEMENT

Malaysians produce up to 2,000
tonnes of textile wastes a day, which
make up 5% of solid wastes that end
up in our landfills. When fabric and
textile wastes decompose, a potent
greenhouse gas called methane
is released to the environment.
Therefore, there is a need to properly
manage this waste in order to give
them new life and purpose.
Following the Bank’s three-month
in-house awareness campaign on
e-waste the previous year, EXIM The EXIM Fabric
Bank kept up its momentum to Recycling Movement
inculcate recycling habits among was well-received.
A total of 427 kg of
our employees by teaming up with fabric was collected
Kloth Malaysia Sdn Bhd to support via the Fabric
its fabric recycling initiatives that Recycling bins after
keep textile wastes from ending just two months.
up in the landfills. The 12-month
EXIM Fabric Recycling Movement
involved installation of EXIM Bank’s
wrapped fabric recycling bins at
three locations, namely the EXIM
Bank headquarters, Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur
and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
in Bangi. Trivia posters placed
throughout the Bank’s premises and
email notifications to employees
drove the educational aspects of the
campaign. Face masks were given
to all employees who participated in
the campaign.

The first collection of fabric waste
after two months of launching the
movement saw resounding success
as the Bank collected more than
427 kg of fabric waste with a total
collection of 1,032 kg by end-2020.