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Anne Puolanne and Kaika Astikainen, the authors of Ekosetti, a guidebook written for the Finnish audiovisual industry about ecologically sustainable productions, were consulted in the creation of our strategy.

RESPONSIBILITY STRATEGY (Updated 04/2023)

• Kinos Rentals Oy is committed to sustainable development. Our responsibility strategy covers ecological, financial, social and cultural sustainability.
• Our intention is to meet the goals of ecologically sustainable film, television and commercial production; that is, to minimize the environmental burden when it comes to, among others, logistics and the consumption of energy.
• 2021 – In our first responsibility strategy, we focused on an ecological viewpoint and aimed towards carbon neutral Finland in 2035.
• 2022 – We used one international environment strategy, which maps out and minimizes the production’s carbon footprint.
• 2023 – Kinos Rentals is promoting the wellbeing of employees by focusing on developing a more pleasant working environment and by promoting the goals for social functionality; positive feedback, a good internal communication and information flow have a positive impact on working atmosphere and are the strength of it.
• 2023 – The planning of TYKY days (recreational days) focuses on versatile content that will be an inspiration for the whole working community. Promoting this kind of activity will support everyone’s ability to function well at work.
• 2023 – Well-being and health are also supported by always offering employees a healthy option at lunch on Friday.

UPDATES OF THE STRATEGY

• Kinos Rentals is committed to update and publish its responsibility strategy annually. We will update our responsibility strategy in Q4-2024.
• Part of our working culture is building our practices and ways of being responsible together: all our staff members can propose new practices that will take sustainable development into consideration better and support it. By brainstorming together and including everyone, ideas naturally become practices.

DEVELOPING OUR SERVICES

Kinos Rentals actively develops and surveys new services and approaches that will increase awareness of ecological solutions both within our company and among our clients.

• Kinos Rentals provides help and consultation for productions on making ecological choices. To support our sustainability strategy, part of our staff has received the albert training by Audiovisual Producers Finland – APFI ry in January 2022. Albert is an international environment system built for the film industry to help productions with the calculation of their carbon footprint.
• Kinoslive is a new, innovative streaming service developed by Kinos Rentals. It enables film crew members to work on productions without being on set, via remote access. By using the Kinoslive service, you can decrease traveling both domestically and internationally, thereby cutting down on travel expenses and emissions while minimizing the spread of infectious diseases.
• Our new 300-square-meter studio next to our rental house services small- and medium-size productions efficiently near the downtown area; the location is easily accessible no matter what type of transportation you use. We utilized the original structure of the space when we designed and renovated the studio. Among other things, we improved thermal insulation by adding doors inside the building.
• As the studio is next to the rental house, the time and effort used for transporting equipment is minimized. The most ecological option is to move the equipment from the rentals office to the studio by pushing it in a cart.
• We encourage our clients to recycle their studio sets instead of disposing of them in the hope that they will be stored and recycled for future productions. This way our clients will save resources and cut down significantly on the amount of waste. We’re currently looking into the possibility of acquiring storage space in the vicinity of the studio.

ELECTRICITY, PREMISES AND LOGISTICS

• The electricity used by Kinos Rentals as well as the premises is produced entirely by wind energy. That means that our clients will have the batteries of their equipment charged with wind energy when they leave.
• The Finnish environmental protection laws and Energy and Climate Roadmap 2050 are followed in the administration of our premises. We receive a report of our energy and water consumption every three months and use it to further improve our energy efficiency.
• We at Kinos Rentals encourage our clients to come to our premises using public transport; we can be easily reached by tram, bus or bike. More detailed instructions on how to get to us will soon be available on our website: www.kinosrentals.fi/contact
• Kinos Rentals encourages its staff members to commute to work in an environmentally friendly way and offers them a bike benefit.
• The delivery lunch is chosen to be ordered from restaurants close to the premises.

RECYCLING AND WASTE SORTING

• We sort our waste; we separate cardboard, paper, plastic, organic waste, glass, metal, mixed waste, energy waste, hazardous waste and e-waste. There’s a modern waste sorting room on our premises.
• In 2021, we have also improved the recycling options for our clients by adding more recycling stations on our premises and making them more visible.
• Our clients can leave their used batteries and empty spray containers for us to recycle.

RENTAL EQUIPMENT

• The idea of an equipment rentals service is inherently environmentally friendly. It’s ecologically more sustainable if a larger group of people uses the same equipment rather than all production companies buying their own.
• We maintain our equipment regularly to ensure a life span as long as possible; upwards of a hundred years. Our staff is trained in the maintenance, so we’re able to avoid sending our equipment abroad, thus cutting down on emissions and costs.
• We invest in quality equipment that will last a long time.
• An important part of our light equipment is new, energy efficient LED lamps.
• When a piece of equipment can no longer be repaired, it will be recycled, adhering to recycling guidelines.

VEHICLES

• Kinos Rentals’ trucks and generator vehicles have new EURO 5 or EURO 6 size diesel motors.
• We will only use completely renewable Finnish low-carbon biodiesel starting September 2021. We also encourage our clients to use it.
• When designing routes for our equipment transportation, we make them as efficient as possible and run as many errands as possible in one trip.

OFFICE AND PREMISES

• We acquire mostly second-hand office furniture and shelving for the equipment.
• When buying new furniture, we prefer furniture produced domestically according to the ISO standards thus minimizing the negative effects on the environment.

SOCIAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE AT KINOS RENTALS

• In addition to statutory occupational health care, employees can use the voluntary medical care services in Terveystalo. The regular occupational health checks for the permanent staff enables to find and prevent the work ability issues and other health matters.
• The employees’ well-being at work is promoted with the preventive support measures agreed in the occupational health and safety action programs. Other events which promote well-being at work are the annual TYKY days (recreational days) and the lunch offered to employees at the workplace on Fridays.
• Kinos wants to support employees to exercise and have a more fluent commute by offering them the chance to purchase an ecological fringe benefit bike.
• To support the development of the employees, Kinos provides an Eduhouse education service for their use. It offers a wide selection of additional education e.g. for the supervisors and the HR person.