Waste management policy

1. Objective

Build principles to promote management of all waste produced by the Company’s various businesses.

2. Presentation

2.1. As natural resources are becoming scarcer, Eletrobras FURNAS has recognized its responsibility for managing the waste from its businesses.

2.2. The policy highlights the need for systematic waste control from the moment it is created to final disposal, classifying reusable or recyclable waste as a socioeconomic asset, in accordance with current legislation.

3. Principles

Based on its Waste Management Policy, the company:

3.1. Promotes and facilitates waste management activities across the Company, encouraging environment and sustainable development in accordance with current legislation.

3.2. Systematically controls Company waste generation, collection, segregation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery and final disposal.

3.3. Contracts with suppliers and service providers that use environmentally correct technology and acquires products or materials that cause the least environmental impact.

3.4. Offers training and safe working conditions to protect the health of waste management employees.

3.5. Provides ongoing environmental education and increases employee awareness of waste management.

3.6. Preserves Eletrobras FURNAS’s reputation as a socially and environmentally responsible company on waste management issues and works with the local communities where the Company operates, as was environmental agencies and other stakeholders.

3.7. Establish, implement, evaluate and monitor systems, plans, programs, projects and processes that reduce waste generation, as well as regulations affecting Eletrobras FURNAS, in accordance with the Environmental Policy and other Company policies.