Our waste management and recycling process
König + Neurath aspires to keep waste levels as low as possible. Unavoidable waste materials undergo a material recycling process wherever possible. As a result the percentage of waste material that is recycled has risen by over 80% since 2018. The reason for this improvement is the option of recycling waste sawmill scraps. They are pretreated and depending on quality they can be used as recyclate in wood composite materials or processed for energy. The percentage of waste material recycling compared with the total waste quantity at König + Neurath was 84.2% in 2020 and 86.0% in 2021.
In 2020 the total waste quantity has halved compared with the previous year (1,572 t, –50 %). In 2019 the waste quantity was 3,150 t. The order volume was reduced in 2020 because of the pandemic, which had a direct effect on the volume of waste.
By far the largest percentage of waste here is waste metal, which includes offcuts, scrap machinery and other scrap (59 %). The second largest percentage is waste paper (14 %).
In 2021 the total waste quantity remained the same as the previous year (1,551 t, –1 %). A further reason for the lower waste quantities compared with 2019 is the fact that since 2020 we have had the potential to use all wood scraps from production for heating. In 2019 we generated a further 1,173 t of wood scraps, which were recycled or used for thermal recovery. In 2021 metal waste constituted most of our waste (61 %), and the second largest percentage is made up of waste paper (14 %).
Waste quantity and hazardousness of waste
Year | Waste quantity [t] | Nonhazardous waste [%] | Hazardous waste [%] |
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2017 | 2.575 | 98 | 2 |
2018 | 2.604 | 98 | 2 |
2019 | 3.193 | 98 | 2 |
2020 | 1.604 | 95 | 5 |
2021 | 1.588 | 95 | 5 |
GRI Index
GRI: 306-2Waste by type and disposal method
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