Eco-Défis is a regional initiative of the Chambres des Métiers et de l’Artisanat (CMA), partly financed by ADEME, which promotes companies that have embarked on an environmental and societal dynamic. Clermont Auvergne Métropole is fully committed to this initiative, which it is also supporting financially.
Numerous companies have been sensitized to the Eco-Challenge initiative, by taking on challenges that earn them a number of stars according to the complexity of the task. Three levels of recognition have been defined according to the number of stars obtained: bronze, silver and gold.
Last night, 8 local companies were recognized for their approach and commitment
Gold level
MIC SIGNALOC (Cournon-d’Auvergne)
Manufacturer and installer of external access bollards and street furniture
Julien Byczek and his team have eco-designed a modular product that can be adapted to any type of street furniture without having to make any changes, enabling access control using a range of different methods (biometric, badge, code…). To achieve this, they used as many local suppliers as possible. Using recyclable materials wherever possible, with the electronics developed and parameterized in the Puy de Dôme region. MIC SIGNALOC is also a company that welcomes and trains young people, plays an active role in the life of companies in the Cournon business park, and has installed self-consuming photovoltaic panels on its roof to reduce its electricity consumption by more than 75%, while equipping itself with electric vehicles for the sales team.
UNCLE HERACLITE (Clermont-Ferrand)
On-site and take-away pizzeria
Rémi Lacoste is committed to reducing the impact of customer packaging by offering washable and reusable pizza boxes, either returnable or for sale. He uses the services of the Raboule association, of which he is a member, and which works to offer zero-waste cyclo-logistics solutions for restaurateurs in Clermont and the surrounding area. He also uses seasonal produce and local, even very local, beverages from a microbrewery on his street.
BELLE AU NATUR’ELLE (Montferrand)
Institut de Beauté
Laetitia Guilhin has already been awarded the “Your responsible institute for sustainable beauty” label by the CNAIB. To achieve this, she uses eco-labelled products and is involved in the “Montferrand commerces et services” association. It has set up heating regulation systems, carefully monitors its water consumption, and has also largely dematerialized its communications, including within its own premises.
CLAC (Cournon d’Auvergne)
Conserverie Locale Artisanale et Créative
Julien Anglade and his team welcome work-study students on a regular basis and offer a full range of organic canned vegetables. He is heavily involved in BIO63, an association promoting the sector in our department, from producers to consumers and distributors. He consigns many of his containers, reusing as many cartons as possible after investing in a machine that prints all the data produced on kraft tape. He has just expanded his offer by directly addressing the general public with a tasting area for his products: La Guinguette. The Guinguette is also intended to become a meeting place and a gathering place for people working to benefit the environment.
LA BOULANGERIE MODERNE (Clermont Ferrand)
City-center bakery
Ophélie Maillot and her team work hard to limit packaging for their customers, offering them bags in partnership with the YAKA’Y brand, as well as “bentogato” packaging for washable pastries, full of good explanations. Cookie recipes based on breadcrumbs made from dry bread are also available, to reduce waste while producing tasty cakes. A switch to a 100% green energy contract and an investment in an electric oven to replace a gas oven also demonstrate the efforts made in this direction, in addition to the training of young apprentices.
FLEUR’T (Montferrand)
Salon de Thé and florist
Since February, Céline Alibart has been offering an atypical place where you can enjoy organic teas and buy a bouquet of French flowers from her own production or from French suppliers. Convinced by the cause of preserving the environment, she composts all her green waste. She also offers moss-free arrangements that will evolve into plant-based decorative objects once the flowers have wilted, to reduce waste. She asks friends and family to bring her the desiccators she makes available to her customers. In her home, there’s no garbage can, no electric refrigerator and plants in the communal areas of her building for the pleasure of her neighbors and customers.
MES PETITES FLEURS D’AUVERGNE (Chamalières)
Composition of decorative objects and jewelry made from flowers grown, picked or dried
Elodie Raimbault offers flowers she grows or picks as she strolls through our beautiful region. She dries them to make paintings, jewelry or even transforms a bride’s bouquet into objects that will follow her throughout her life. She has invested in a cargo bike, optimized her website so that it weighs less and uses less energy, taken on an apprentice, buys a lot of second-hand furniture for her boutique and takes part in an action in favor of the fight against cancer.
Silver level
LE DUGUESCLIN (Montferrand)
Restaurant
Sabrina Colombier and her team work hard to offer local produce transformed into gourmet dishes. She has reduced her waste and bio-waste production to a minimum, regulates her heating intelligently and automatically, recycles her cooking oil and promotes local beverages.