Waste
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.
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Waste intensity
Per unit processed material
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
MT
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Waste to landfill
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
%
5
4
3
2
1
0
New baseline Including used bleaching earth
2018 waste disposal 2018 waste disposal – new baseline
Including used bleaching earth
Contributes to:
1% Reuse
5% Landfill
15% Recycle
79% Recover
New baseline
1% Reuse
3% Landfill
14% Recycle
82% Recover