Sustainability report 2019

48 In 2015, AAK set a waste ambition that less than 1.5 percent of waste in AAK should be disposed at ODQG¿OO 7KLV WDUJHW ZDV DFKLHYHG ODVW \HDU E\ WKH 6FRSH 2016 sites but was challenged due to the inclusion of new sites in 2018. Additional changes in legislation has LQFUHDVHG WKH VKDUH RI ZDVWH GLVSRVHG DW ODQG¿OO HYHQ further but extensive work is ongoing to both reduce waste and increase recycling. Waste generation and reduction During 2019, AAK’s production sites generated 149,453 tons of waste, an increase by 16 percent compared to the previous year. 99.1 percent of this waste was non-hazardous. The waste intensity per unit processed material also increased by 8 percent compared to 2018, a development driven by the inclusion of new sites, larger processed volumes and changes in legislation. In 2018, there was a change in 86 OHJLVODWLRQ UHJDUGLQJ WKH FODVVL¿FDWLRQ DQG KDQGOLQJ of used bleaching earth. This resulted in bigger volumes JRLQJ WR ODQG¿OO LQFUHDVLQJ WKH VKDUH E\ SHUFHQW 7KHUHIRUH $$. VDZ D VLJQL¿FDQW LQFUHDVH LQ Waste Contributes to: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 MT Waste intensity Per unit processed material :DVWH WR ODQG¿OO 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 5 4 3 2 1 0 % HQGLQJ XS ZLWK SHUFHQW JRLQJ WR ODQG¿OO 'XH WR WKLV change, the sites made efforts to identify how to solve it. Several of them have made great efforts to become ]HUR ODQG¿OO VLWHV GXULQJ DQG SHUFHQW RI RXU production sites managed to achieve zero waste to ODQG¿OO ,Q WRWDO GXULQJ WRQV RI ZDVWH ZDV GLVSRVHG DW ODQG¿OO HTXDO WR SHUFHQW RI WKH WRWDO amount of waste. An impressive reduction of 48 percent since 2018. Waste, sidestreams or byproducts During the last couple of years, AAK has experienced some changes that have had an impact on the compa- rability of the waste statistics from year to year. Due to FKDQJHV LQ OHJLVODWLRQ DQG JOREDO UHGH¿QLWLRQV RI ZDVWH into sidestreams or byproducts we will see irregularities LQ WKH ZDVWH WR ODQG¿OO GDWD JRLQJ IRUZDUG :DVWH UHGXF - WLRQ DQG ZDVWH WR ODQG¿OO ZLOO DOZD\V EH NH\ IRFXV DUHDV but going forward we also need to identify sidesteams that carry high value as raw materials and obtain more circular business models. 2019 waste disposal Including used bleaching earth 1.0% Reuse /DQG¿OO 19.0% Recycle 77.5% Recover 1.3 1.9 2.2 4.8 2.5 57.8 52.6 51.7 49.8 53.8