Climate Protection
Waste production and disposal
The total volume of waste is generally on a downward trend despite continuously increasing sales volumes. The reason for this is that the different types of waste were separated better, and cleanliness and tidiness improved, which was also reflected in the slightly decreasing amount of household waste produced. We aim to permanently reduce our waste production by continuously optimising our production workflow, introducing new production technologies, and continuing with our strict waste sorting policy. In addition to this, DENIOS does not use sales packaging. As a result, returns do not produce any unnecessary waste. However, 2022 was a record year for DENIOS in terms of production output. An overall increase in waste volumes is therefore evident here.
Since the start of 2021, new packaging legislation has been in place: DENIOS pays license fees so that 'pick-up systems' can collect and dispose of all packaging for its customers. To this end, DENIOS has registered in Germany's Central Agency Packaging Register (ZSVR).
The waste volume produced by our production sites in Germany, France, the Czech Republic and Italy during the report period was as follows:
Transport of hazardous waste
Our production operations generate the usual types of hazardous waste for our industry. These include contaminated metal waste, pressurised containers, and leftover coatings and paints from the coating work on our room systems. This waste is collected from our site in Bad Oeynhausen by our disposal partners and thermally salvaged at a waste incineration facility. The total annual weight of our transported hazardous waste in the reporting period was 4.84 t and 7.49 t, respectively. We recycle leftover solvents using an in-house solvent recovery system. In 2022, we were able to recycle 302 kg of 430 kg, and in 2023 the amount was 294 kg of 420 kg. This is around 70% for each year. Apart from this, we do not import or export any other hazardous waste. We can also guarantee that we have not had any leaks of harmful substances.