About this report

This report is based on our Business Strategy Topics and our Business Responsibility Topics. These topics were formulated following input from comprehensive stakeholder, risk and materiality analyses.

Christer Lundberg
Global Sustainability & QMS Manager at Envac AB

The results and learnings from last year’s report provided us with valuable insight into how we should prioritise our action to achieve our long-term sustainability targets.

We are aware of the different levels of maturity of monitoring sustainable impacts within our regions globally. This is a challenge, however our global long-term sustainability targets will promote cooperation and drive progress throughout our business.

Our sustainability reporting has also given us a powerful communication tool to showcase the benefits our solutions have compared to other waste collection methods.

Building on this work, we will continue to develop pneumatic waste collection and sorting systems that will be sustainable throughout the entire value chain. This will contribute to our higher purpose and responsibilities – today and for future generations.

In this year’s report, we have expanded the scope of our sustainability reporting to include another region. Our aim is to include all our regions in our next Sustainability Report in 2022.

Report format
This report is published in a web format and is made responsive to be easily accessed on any tablet or smartphone. There is also a pdf version should you wish to print part or all of the report.

Our sustainability journey

This is Envac’s second Sustainability Report. In this year’s report, we have broadened the scope of our reporting by adding a region – South Europe & Americas.

Our thorough work last year to understand our sustainability impacts, stakeholder interests and our most material topics helped us to set ambitious targets and plan our sustainability work going forward. We now have long-term targets approved by our Global Executive Board (GEB) for our ‘Higher purpose’ and ‘Business responsibility’ topics.

Our prioritised sustainability topics

Envac’s four Business Strategy Topics reflect the positive sustainability benefits of our products and services. The topics were identified based on Envac’s strategic business targets and are a natural part of our daily business.

Envac’s three Business Responsibility Topics define our responsibility as a business partner – to guide our behaviour and how we operate our business. Taking care of our employees, being honest and transparent towards our business partners, and treating everyone as an equal and with respect is key to be considered a serious business partner.

Business Strategy Topics

Minimise environmental impact

Cost efficiency

Added value

Safe & user friendly system

Business Responsibility Topics

Working conditions

Fair & ethical business

Diversity & inclusion

Our higher purpose targets

Scope 2 & 3

reporting by 2024.

< 0
kWh/tonnage waste collected when operating customer sites by 2030.
Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds

CO2 neutral operations by 2030.

Increase number of Envac system users with

0 %
by 2025.
0 %
of all new Envac installations in 2023 shall have ReFlow.
0 %
of upgraded installations shall have ReFlow by 2027.

Our business responsibility targets

Our top safety target - zero accidents.

Increase Employee Net Promoter Score with

> 0 %
100%

of employees trained in our Code of Conduct by 2023.

0 %
of key suppliers signed up to our supplier Code of Conduct by 2023.

Our targets are ambitious and will be challenging to achieve. As the level of sustainability maturity differs between our regions, our next step is to harmonise our sustainability work around the world. At Group level, more resources have been allocated to coordinate this work and drive progress together with our regions.

Our short-term work is described in more detail in our Business Strategy Topics and Business Responsibility Topics.

Value chain stakeholders and materiality

This report is based on our value chain, stakeholder interests, risks & opportunities, and prioritised topics from 2020.

Valuable input from the addition of the South Europe & Americas region in this report also confirmed that our materiality work last year remains valid and no changes to our value chain stakeholders and materiality was required for this year’s report.

Our prioritised stakeholders

  • Customers
  • Cities/Communities
  • Building owners
  • City developers
  • End users
  • Employees
  • Suppliers

Value chain and risks and opportunities

R&D

R&D

In our product development phase, we develop new products and improve existing products. The products need to be designed to have the end user in mind. On top of that we need to find the right quality of products to make sure they are resilient and have the lowest cost to make it cost effective for our customers.

At the same time we need to know that the materials in our products are safe to use for the environment and raw materials are collected in a fair and ethical way.
  • Cost/quality balance
  • Environmental design
  • Design for user experience
  • Material sourcing  
  • Minimise environmental impact
  • Cost efficiency
  • Safe & user friendly systems
  • Minimise environmental impact
  • Cost efficiency
  • Safe & user friendly systems

Supply

Supply

In our supply chain we need to find the best suppliers that will help us to deliver high quality products to our customers. This also involves setting high standards for our company when it comes to social and environmental criteria. We need to make sure that our suppliers follow our expectations within environmental and social impact. It can also be important to know that the raw materials in our products are sourced in a fair and ethical way.
  • Supplier partnership
  • Transport efficiency
  • Supplier environmental impact
  • Supplier social impact
  • Material sourcing
  • Fair and ethical business
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Minimise environmental impact
  • Supplier evaluation
  • Global procurement policy

Sales & marketing

Sales & marketing

We ensure that our products have positive overall sustainability impacts.

To succeed in selling the Envac concept, we need to have competent sales people that understand the sustainability benefits of our systems and how to present them correctly.

A key to success is to influence municipal decision makers. While doing this, we need to make sure we communicate with them in an ethical way and all facts we communicate about our products must be verified.
  • Sustainability product knowledge
  • Fair and ethical sales process
  • Fair and ethical marketing
  • Added value
  • Fair and ethical business
  • Global sales procedure
  • Regional/Local sales processes
  •  

Project installation

Project installation

Our customers have high demands in terms of environment, OHS and other social criteria. We have the processes to manage and meet these requirements when we deliver and install an Envac system.

Cost efficiency in project delivery and making sure we deliver on time is crucial for the continued success of our business and customer satisfaction.

An installation requires a lot of physical and manual work with associated OHS risks. We primarily use subcontractors but in some cases our own employees do the job. Either way, we ensure high standards of OHS.
  • Cost-efficient projects
  • On time project delivery
  • Customer project environmental and social requirements
  • OHS practices
  • Partnership with subcontractors
  • Cost efficiency
  • Working conditions
  • Minimise environmental impact
  • Global project procedure
  • Regional/Local project processes
  • Regional/Local OHS policies and procedures
  • Subcontractor agreements

General policies
& procedures

Code of Conduct
Global Quality Manual
Global Environmental Policy
Global OHS Policy

Operation & maintenance

Operation & maintenance

An Envac installation can be in operation for decades. Our first and oldest system was installed in 1961 and is still up and running.

In order to ensure optimal operation, an Envac system needs to be maintained. Our team of service technicians provide such services on a daily basis. While ensuring a system operates optimally, they work with safety in mind and travel between sites in an energy efficient way.

Safety is crucial when a system needs new parts or is decommissioned. For instance, we have very old installations where we need to consider the kinds of material the building contains before we start to remove an old system.
  • OHS practices
  • Operating efficiency
  • Route planning
  • Fuel usage
  • End of life practice
  • Safe and user-friendly systems
  • Working conditions
  • Minimise environmental impact
  • Regional/Local O&M process
  • Regional/Local OHS policies and procedures

Materiality assessment

Building on the evaluation of our value chain risks, we conducted a market investigation with external stakeholders on a global level in 2020. Sustainability was part of the investigation but not its sole focus.

In parallel, we held 15 workshops with 20 Envac employees that have regular contact with important external stakeholders. The employees were asked to rank 22 different materiality topics from the perspective of specific external stakeholders in order to gauge the sustainability perceptions and priorities of various external stakeholder groups. 

The results of these materiality assessments were cross checked with the findings of our value chain risk evaluation to provide a list of prioritised reporting topics that is aligned with our Business Strategy Topics and Business Responsibility Topics. The prioritised list was approved by the Envac Board of Directors and Global Executive Board (GEB) in the beginning of February 2021.

Higher purpose

Minimise
Environmental impact

Prioritised materiality topics

Emission management
Energy efficient systems
  • Recycling rate
  • Heavy traffic reduction
  • Substances in material/product
  • UN SDG,s – 12 & 13
  • Transport efficiency
  • Business trips
  • Waste management(Internal)

Cost
efficiency

Prioritised materiality topics

Emission management
Energy efficient systems
  • Quality of material/product
  • Resilient system
  • UN SDG,s – 9
  • Back-office efficiency

Added
value

Prioritised materiality topics

Operational efficiency
Energy efficient system
  • Heavy traffic reduction
  • Urban liveability
  • Resilient system
  • UN SDG,s – 9 & 11
  • Clean & sanitary installation

Safe & user
friendly system

Prioritised materiality topics

System availability
User experience
  • Customer & user safety
  • Heavy traffic reduction
  • Urban liveability
  • UN SDG,s – 9 & 11
  • Clean & sanitary installation

Business responsibility

Working conditions

Prioritised materiality topics

OHS practices
  • UN SDG,s – 8
  • Attract & retain talent

Fair & ethical Business

Prioritised materiality topics

Fair business practices
  • UN SDG,s – 16
  • Attract & retain talent

Diversity & Inclusion

Prioritised materiality topics

Fair business practices
  • Equal opportunities & diversity
  • UN SDG,s 5 & 10
  • Attract & retain talent

Global Head Office

Envac AB
Fleminggatan 7, 3tr
SE-112 26 Stockholm, Sweden

Tel: +46 8 785 00 10

Corporate web site:
www.envacgroup.com