ABOUT US FARMING COUNTRIES PROCESSING CONSUMPTION SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE ABOUT THE REPORT By focusing on packed finished products, we have managed to reduce costs and waste from the warehouse. Examples of efforts that have contributed to this reduction are clearer division of responsibility and costs as well as a particular tool for management of sales dates in the business system. WASTE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT 2023 During the calendar year of 2023, we generated almost 600 tons of waste, consisting of packaging material that was recycled, by-products and discarded coffee, where a great share still is used for energy recovery, but the share that is composted increases. Coffee scraps being recycled gives us both financial and environmental benefits. When material that risked becoming waste is used for new products, they suddenly have a value and become an important driving-force in a circular economy,” says Annika Djurberg, Head of Private Label & Commercial Collaboration at Löfbergs. Successful collaboration where coffee soils give growing power Finding alternative ways to make use of coffee beans, which for different reasons end up outside the ordinary flows of our roasteries and that cannot be used for the same purpose again, began in 2022 in cooperation with Econova. The first large-scale test with coffee soils was carried out. By composting the coffee scraps with residues from the forest, Econova gets a nutritious soil that can be used as garden soil for example. The collaboration has continued and resulted in a significant increase, from 2% to 14%, of waste that is composted and becomes growing power instead of being burnt up and used as energy recovery. HOW WE RECYCLE OUR WASTE Destruction: 2% (1) Energy recovery: 73% (87) Composting: 14% (2) Recycling of materials: 12% (11) Landfill: 0% (0) The chart refers to the calendar year of 2023. (Previous financial year 2021/2022 in brackets). 42
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STATUSRAPPORT 2023
