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Ensuring responsible waste management
We take a responsible approach to waste management, the spoils during production and integrating environmentally- focusing on reducing waste at the source. Our aim is to friendly design throughout our processes.
minimise waste by implementing strategies reducing
Risk
OBSERVATION
Over four of our industrial sites, accounting for 57% of our consolidated sales turnover, waste reduction measures have been implemented. For the first ever time, we carried out a comparison over two years, which allowed us to observe that with an increase of almost 24% of our consolidated sales turnover, the increase in material wastage was only 0.67%, maintaining a level below 3%.
INCREASE IN WASTE GENERATED BY A % HIGHER THAN THE INCREASE IN OUR SALES TURNOVER
Overall consolidation of the BBP, PIROM, PISAS and EDM sites
2021/2022
2022/2023
Material wastage in €
Site revenues in k€
1,612,854
72,595
2,580,314
89,282
INDICATOR TARGET
% of Eezeetag 28% tags sold / % total
tags sold: 25.64%
(19.40% in 2021/2022)
RECYCLING GLASSINE
FOR HOME INSULATION
Recently the PISAS site entered into a partnership with a company specialising in recovery of glassine, also known as silicon paper. This type of translucent waxed paper is often used as backing for sticky tags. The aim of this partnership is to collect glassine from clients for recycling and transformation into cellulose wadding, a material frequently used in home insulation.
Currently only 5% of glassine used across Europe is recycled in this way. We are hoping to improve this figure thanks to this partnership. We are planning to assess the situation by late 2024 to measure the progress achieved.
ACTION PLAN
Our main aim is to expand these measures to our other sites to cover 80% of our total sales turnover. During 2022/2023, the introduction of new products was particularly significant, notably at our Romania site where waste material saw a significant increase. However, the control of new production processes has already led to a clear improvement to this situation.
Simultaneously, we are committed to eco-design to reduce waste for our clients and end users.
Ratio of waste/revenue
INDICATOR
Ratio of waste/revenue: 2.89%
(2.22% in 2021/2022)
EEZEETAG: A REVOLUTION IN LUGGAGE TAGS
2.22%
2.89%
TARGET
< 2.5%
Security Label, European leader in the supply of luggage tags for the airline sector, produces and sells Eezeetag tags. These self-stick luggage tags without backing are designed to allow passengers to label their own luggage. This innovation offers a better customer experience by speeding up passage through airport terminals. In addition to these benefits, the product has more environmentally-friendly characteristics. Because they have no backing, they require less raw material and do not generate any additional waste.
The growing use of this product by many terminals and airlines shows its success and its potential to contribute towards more ecological practices in the air travel sector.
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