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During July 2020, Rotoplas designed and published a document with suggestions for setting up, designing, and implementing hand-washing stations. The intention is to offer solutions that can contribute to reduce the rate of contagion due to the health emergency caused by COVID-19. This is a guide that includes materials, plans, assembly steps and recommendations for the installation and use of hand washing stations.

The design of this infrastructure was developed in collaboration with Cántaro Azul, a strategic ally for the innovation and co-creation of products with social impact around the growing problem of water. This collaboration is part of Focus 2 of Rotoplas’ Sustainability Strategy, “Collaborative Innovation with Sense”, through which alliances are generated to develop products and services with social and environmental impact around the growing water crisis.

With this guide, we seek to provide a replicable and accessible alternative to the general public for current hygiene and public health needs, collaborating to prevent the spread of the pandemic in public spaces where infrastructure in public spaces is insufficient.

The solution will directly impact communities where suspension of activities and social distancing is difficult to implement. Chiapas was identified as one of the priority states since only 57% of the population has a piped water supply, so many communities are in need of hygiene and hand-washing infrastructure to cope with the pandemic and reduce transmission of the disease. In response to this situation, together with the Cántaro Azul association, Rotoplas donated components for 100 hand washing stations and 57 storage solutions.

We invite you to consult the manual in the following link: https://rotoplas.com.mx/rtp_resources/home/slider/estacion_lavadoManos.pdf

– Provide follow up on the annual gender-based pay gap analysis.

– Initiation of the endorsement process to the “Gender Equality Seal” led by UNDP.

– Currently Rotoplas aids developing communities by facilitating access to safe water, enabling them to become more in control of their time.

– Follow up the study and communication of the contribution of our solutions to the Sustainable Development Goal number 5 part of the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations (UN), called gender equality.

– Reinforce and train on the “Confia Rotoplas” platform where violations of the Code of Ethics, including those due to gender, are administered by an independent third party for their channeling and correct resolution.

– Publish the Gender-based violence protocol, which provides structure and certainty for complaint resolution, as well as giving training to employees on its use.

– Train and monitor compliance with the Diversity Policy.

– Provide training to staff on the use of the EAP (Employee Assistance Program), where tools are provided for women empowerment through psychological assistance.

– Develop a plan to raise awareness of gender inequality and violence, diversity issues, aimed at all levels of the organization.

Rotoplas, like the UN, believes that “Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but the necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.”

If you want to know more, visit: https://rotoplas.com/investors/rtp_resources/eng/relevant_events/2020/1Q20/Rotoplas-compromise-to-gender-equality.pdf

After competing with 13 applicant companies, Rotoplas was selected as the sole representative of Mexico for the UN Global Leaders Summit, which aims to bring together decision makers so that through working sessions, workshops and meetings, companies can contribute to the resilience of communities to face three global crises: health, inequality and climate.

The project was presented during the SDG Futures Lab sessions, where Rotoplas participated along with projects from the US, UK, Brazil, Denmark, Lebanon, South Africa, Turkey, Bangladesh and Ukraine.

Through this Innovation Hub or platform called “Innovation 4 Water Impact”, Rotoplas seeks to link the actors of the innovation ecosystem in solutions that contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals for Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG 6), as well as Innovation (SDG 9), Ending Poverty (SDG 1), Health (SDG 3), Education (SDG 4), Gender Equality (SDG 5), and Reduction of Inequalities (SDG 10). All of this from an approach aligned with the company’s mission, that people have more and better water.

The purpose of the platform is to connect ideas, proposals and needs with water solutions that will allow transforming the reality of water and sanitation in Latin America. In the platform, challenges are launched for community impact projects (donations or co-investment), validation of technologies, prototypes, business ideas, among others. The platform evaluates the proposals received to trigger community impact that will solve the water needs that cause semi-urban and rural inequalities. From collaborative schemes that promote impact projects, Rotoplas recognizes that it can contribute to the water needs at the base of the pyramid.

On June 15, 2020, the first call for the submission of projects “Agua x nosotros” was released, focusing on projects that solve the three categories identified by Rotoplas:

1. Water Basic Availability
2. Water reduce, reuse and recycle
3. Integrated in-household solution

We invite you to participate in the call in the following link:

https://rotoplas.com/innwai-water-innovation-hub/?lang=en

In this way, through the detection of innovative ideas to solve social problems related to water, Rotoplas seeks to innovate in order to generate an impact on its environment.

In 2020, the World Economic Forum declared that the five most pressing global risks are related to climate change. Similarly, climate change impacts on variations in rainfall and on the availability of freshwater resources for human consumption.

Rotoplas is working on its Climate Change Strategy, through which it helps its stakeholders to mitigate and adapt to the risks derived from climate change. As one of the actions of this Strategy, we have identified which of our products and services help boost the resilience of our end-users, presented in the following table:

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Therefore, we have taken on the task of understanding how Rotoplas can become a part of the solution, given our corporate purpose. The result of this process, is our Climate Change Strategy, which is derived from our Sustainability Strategy. It aims to positively impact our various stakeholders by generating and capturing climate value, always putting users at the center.

This is our identification of stakeholders, to whom we seek to provide greater resilience in the face of climate change:

If you want to read more in detail about our climate value proposition for each of our stakeholders download the link here: