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Waste
In 2015, AAK set a waste ambition that less than
1.5 percent of waste in AAK should be disposed at
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2016 sites but was challenged due to the inclusion of
new sites in 2018. Additional changes in legislation has
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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
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of used bleaching earth. This resulted in bigger volumes
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change, the sites made efforts to identify how to solve
it. Several of them have made great efforts to become
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production sites managed to achieve zero waste to
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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 comparability
of the waste statistics from year to year. Due to
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into sidestreams or byproducts we will see irregularities
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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
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77.5% Recover
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