nachhaltiges Handeln - Sita Deutschland GmbH

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Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2009
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Summary
SITA Deutschland is a subsidiary of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, an international
water and waste management specialist. SITA is a leader both within the
group as well as in the market as a specialist for everything to do with waste.
This is evident in our constant efforts to render waste collection and transport
cleaner and more efficient, while continually improving the sustainability of the
treatment and processing of the waste.
SITA Deutschland, together with the Dutch,
Belgian and Luxembourg SITA companies, constitutes
SITA NEWS (SITA Northern European Waste Services).
In 2009 the NEWS organizational structure, which
had existed since 2007, was again restructured with
subdivision into Sales & Operations (S&O) on the
national level and with coordination of the fields of
Recycling, Treatment & Trading (RT&T) across national
boundaries.
SITA develops sustainable waste disposal concepts
on national and european level and is therefore not
just a waste service provider, but has become an
energy and raw material provider too. SITA NEWS's
objective is to make a decisive contribution to the
implementation of the SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT
sustainability strategy, especially with regard to the
principal target of the optimization of recycling,
reuse and reduction of waste.
Thanks to the services provided, SITA Deutschland
is involved in practically all parts of the waste
cycle, from collection to treatment, from recycling
to secondary raw material recovery and further
processing. SITA works for citizens, companies,
municipalities and other organizations. In Germany
SITA is responsible for the waste collection of more
than 10 million citizens and 60,000 companies.
Results
Despite the unparalleled economic crisis, SITA
Deutschland has succeeded in realizing its business
goals. Since SITA had already optimized many
processes, the company was in a relatively stable
position. Further savings were made in reaction to
the economic crisis. Unfortunately, this also meant
the loss of some jobs. However, this cost saving has
enabled SITA to maintain its market position through
the crisis and even to create new opportunities. The
crisis, and the resulting decline in the quantity of waste,
hit the industry shortly after extensive investments
had been made in new high quality waste recycling
facilities. This also affected the modern energy from
waste plant in Zorbau, which contributes to the overall
turnover both through waste recycling as well as
through energy generation, and as a result makes an
important contribution to our competitive positioning.
In 2009 SITA successfully took part in many tenders,
both for waste collection and transport as well as for
recycling. Consequently, we are in a position to utilize
our treatment capacities to the best.
SITA saves CO2-emissions since, as a result of
recycling, we reduce raw material consumption
and simultaneously generate energy from waste. To
improve this balance, we have intensified our efforts to
make our processes even more efficient. In addition,
we are taking all sorts of measures to compensate for
and further reduce CO2 emissions.
Thanks to the optimization of the collection routes and
use of technical innovations, such as electronically
controlled gas pedals, diesel consumption fell in 2009
by 2,4 % to 21 million liters of diesel. In the case of long
distance transport alone, route optimization resulted
in a reduction of about three million kilometers a
year. This corresponds to a saving in CO2 emissions
of about 2,340 tons. As a result of the introduction
of Green IT with electricity-saving server solutions, it
was possible to save 37,000 kWh in electricity in the
Cologne headquarters alone.
We are also especially pleased about the decline in