AAK sustainability report 2018

48 During 2018, AAK’s production sites generated 128,000 MT of waste. This is an increase of 6.6 percent compared to 2017 and is driven by the inclusion of new sites and larger processed volumes. Of the total amount of waste 99.4 percent was non-hazardous. In waste disposal, there is a clear, very determined effort toward reducing waste going to landfill. In 2015, AAK set a waste ambition for 2018, targeting that less than 1.5 percent of the waste in AAK should be disposed at landfill. Looking at comparable conditions to when the ambition was set AAK reached the objective and 1.5 percent of the waste was disposed at landfill in 2018. However, changes in the US legislation regarding the classification and handling of used bleaching earth has meant that 1.5 percentage points extra waste had to be sent to landfill. The new baseline including the four new production sites adds 1.8 percentage points of waste to landfill. In total during 2018, 6,190 MT of waste was disposed at landfill, equal to 4.8 percent of the total amount of waste. A large proportion of the waste is shea meal, which is the residual product when oil is extracted from shea kernels. Shea meal has no nutritional value and is used as biomass in power plants. Waste reduction will remain a key focus area. This includes strengthening our practices at our new sites. Waste 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 MT 2018 waste disposal 2018 waste disposal – new baseline Waste to landfill 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 5 4 3 2 1 0 % New baseline Including used bleaching earth Including used bleaching earth Contributes to: 1% Reuse 5% Landfill 15% Recycle 79% Recover New baseline 1% Reuse 3% Landfill 14% Recycle 82% Recover Waste intensity Per unit processed material