Sustainability
Report 2021
The best
environmental
performance
We aim to inspire, motivate and lead our customers into a greener tomorrow.
Minimise environmental impact
Management approach
Our solutions contribute to more sustainable urban development by enabling highly efficient waste management systems. At the same time, we understand that our solutions have a negative environmental impact through the energy and resources they use. We work continuously to further reduce our environmental impact by developing even more energy efficient solutions and by reducing the impact of our own operations.
We want Envac customers to know that they have chosen the best waste collection solution on the market from an environmental perspective.
How we do it
Our digital solutions optimise energy use
The Envac Automation Platform (EAP) is an Artificial Intelligence platform that enables pneumatic waste collection systems to learn and optimise over time.
In 2021, we continued to install and upgrade existing customer systems with the latest third generation of EAP (EAP3). We launched 23 new EAP3 systems in 2021 and by the end of the year we had a total of 53 systems running on EAP3 around the world.
Digitalisation
Our digital tool ReFlow increases recycling rates and supports broader municipality sustainability objectives. ReFlow also combines with EAP3 to use data from the platform to further optimise energy through Artificial Intelligence.
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Long-term experience and expertise
Our long experience of pneumatic waste collection systems has given us the right expertise to always improve and develop our customer installations to decrease energy use. We have decreased energy use by 39% since 2015 at our customer site in León, Spain, by using our expertise and optimising the operation of the facility.
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By understanding the need for retrofitting and installing a business intelligence system at Roosevelt Island in New York City, we managed to decrease energy consumption by 67% between 2018 and 2021 in a system that is over 50 years old.
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Reduced need for heavy traffic
Our pneumatic waste collection solution reduces the total mileage driven by waste collection trucks. Less fuel use and the number of trucks needed to collect waste reduces CO2 emissions, environmental impact and financial costs. In the Majadahonda municipality in Spain, Envac’s system has reduced the amount of truck kilometres by over 90%.
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systems running Globally on EAP3 by the end of 2021.
Envac has reduced energy use by
in León’s waste collection system since 2015.
Our systems in Majadahonda reduced the amount of truck kilometres by over
Optimising energy efficiency
We proactively work to promote energy efficiency – both at our customer sites and within our own operations.
In 2021, we connected our internal resource efficiency targets within Envac Scandinavia to our total revenue. Our company targets were broken down to department targets to focus on areas where we can have the greatest positive effect. One example was our service department that launched an employee-driven target of fuel efficiency per tonne of collected waste, which resulted in a 15% decrease during the year.
In 2022 and beyond, we will increasingly take a global approach on energy efficiency at our customer sites and our internal operations.
Going forward
In 2021, our Group Executive Board (GEB) set ambitious energy efficiency targets – both at our customer sites as well as striving to make our internal operations CO2 neutral by 2030.
In 2022, all Envac regions will start to develop procedures to collect energy use data, and regions that already collect energy data available will start working on CO2 reduction activities with a target to reduce CO2 by 2% in 2022. Our employee awareness programme will be integrated into our global work.
We are already measuring kWh/tonne at selected customer sites globally, and we need to improve the focus on energy efficiency activities at these sites. In 2021, we measured an average of 265 kWh/tonne at these sites. We will continue to add sites that measure energy efficiency with a target to achieve 100 kWh/tonne on average by 2030. This will require us to continue our hands-on approach and to use our expertise to further optimise our technology.
In 2021, we clarified and updated our R&D processes to always include sustainability topics when developing new or updating existing products.
“It is a cleaner system, we don’t have issues with odours and garbage bags on the street, and residents can get rid of their waste 24 hours a day, every day of the week”
Future ambitions
Our environmental performance is good, but we see potential to further improve. We believe we have an opportunity to further develop the awareness of the environmental impacts of our products and services throughout the value chain.
Our systems require energy to operate, however we have opportunities to promote the sourcing of renewable energy in our systems around the world.
Planned action to further minimise environmental impact
Target
<100kWh/tonne of waste collected at customer sites by 2030.
R&D process updated to promote environmental aspects when developing new products.
Implement concept of energy management plans at customer sites.
Develop in 2022
Launch in 2023
Target
CO2 Neutral operations by 2030
Locally implemented -renewable sources of electricity at customer sites.
Develop data collection process of energy use of internal operations
Develop in 2022
Launch in 2023
Report on CO2 emissions throughout the entire value chain
Scope 2 & 3 reporting completed for reporting of year 2024
Target
50% of all new Envac installations shall have ReFlow installed by 2023
90% of all upgraded Envac installations shall have ReFlow installed by 2027
Implementation of ReFlow
Full release on ReFlow
End of 2022