Environmental Report 2000 - EnBW

State of the Environment Report for the Business Divisions
Business Division Disposal Services
EnBW provides services through its subsidiaries in the areas of waste disposal, waste
recycling and thermal waste treatment. Most of these companies are already wellestablished
in the market and are superbly equipped to face the challenges of the future.
U-plus Umweltservice AG
As a holding company, U-plus Umweltservice
AG pools the disposal
services expertise of the EnBW
Group. It is Baden Württemburg’s
premier company for industrial waste
disposal. In 2000 company turnover
increased by around 10% to € 253
million.
The U-plus Group has a decentralised
structure with the role of the holding
company focussed on strategic market
positioning and management,
quality control and centralised services
for the EnBW Group.
With more than 40 operating holding
companies and a total staff of some
1,700 employees, companies in the
U-plus Group cover the whole spectrum
of services in the disposal sec-
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tor from disposal logistics and the
company’s own intermediate storage
facility for waste requiring special
attention and supervision to a wide
range of pre-treatment, sorting and
recycling facilities and proper and final
disposal. Business divisions include
disposal logistics, recycling and waste
disposal. U-plus’s increasing interest
in technologically oriented special
areas is adding a new page to its service
portfolio whilst also proving a fertile
ground for new stimuli.
Disposal logistics
Regional disposal companies are represented
in every district of Baden-
Württemberg. Their high-performance
logistics and container systems ensure
the collection and transport of
individual waste materials. They also
offer container services and operate
their own plants in which construction
and industrial waste can be sorted –
as well as the “green dot” packaging
waste collected from households via
the “Dual System” refuse management
scheme.
As “all-in-one disposal experts”,
these companies are problem-solvers
and advice-givers for their municipal
and commercial customers, who can
contact them in connection with all
waste-related questions.
Environmentally friendly recycling
in the company’s own plant
U-plus operates its own recycling
plant for the treatment and reprocessing
of electrical and electronic scrap,
metal, motor vehicles, timber, plastics,
construction waste, biological
waste and sewage sludge.
Our objective is to pretreat the specific
forms of waste so that environmentally
hazardous components can
be safely removed from the material
cycle and the highest possible quota
be delivered for recycling or as raw
material for new products.
Environmentally friendly
waste disposal
The third business division provides
services for the local authorities,
especially in the area of building and
operating waste disposal units. As
new government regulations on residential
waste stipulate that from
2005 onwards untreated waste may
no longer be stored, these new disposal
units make a vital contribution
to environmental safety and proper
disposal. U-plus’s ISKA technology is a
pioneering technology for mechanicalbiological
waste disposal. In addition,
the company also has a stake, via its
subsidiary T-plus, in the creation of
thermal waste treatment units.
At present, the U-plus Group operates
55 recycling and waste treatment
plants with an annual capacity of more
than 2 million tonnes. In this way it is
making its own important contribution
to a highly functional waste disposal
infrastructure.
Environmental management as a
guiding principle
As we subscribe to a decentralised
management principle, all the operative
holding companies in our Group
are directly responsible for the environmental
organisation of their own
company and for seeing that it acts in
compliance with all relevant environ-
Plant Capacities of the U-Plus Group
totalling around 2,3 million t/a
Plastic Recycling
E-scrap Processing
File Shredding
Composting
Metal Recycling
Sewage Sludge Treatment
Wood Processing
Bark and Soil Processing
Construction Debris Recycling
Paper Sorting
Reusable Material Sorting
Reloading Stations *
* road-rail-waterway
mental guidelines and regulations. For
the companies of the U-plus Group a
commitment to the environment is
one of the cornerstones of all their
business activities. They are careful to
act only within the framework of the
laws and ordinances governing the
waste disposal sector and to thus
create the essential conditions for a
closed-loop economy with the goals
of avoiding waste wherever possible,
recycling it rationally or disposing of it
in an ecologically friendly manner.
In the respective companies, the
management executives with special
responsibility for the environment are
appointed in conformity with the legal
guidelines and registered with the
appropriate authorities. The areas of
responsibility assigned for environmental
protection are clearly demarcated
both in the quality management
system and the management system
for specialised waste disposal companies.
10,000 t/a
20,000 t/a
35,000 t/a
60,000 t/a
100,000 t/a
180,000 t/a
200,000 t/a
210,000 t/a
300,000 t/a
310,000 t/a
450,000 t/a
480,000 t/a
Companies have defined the procedures
and information channels to
be observed in case of a incident in
the internal guidelines of the quality
management system. Contingency
plans for an environmentally relevant
accident, such as a fire or during the
storage or transport of dangerous
substances, are drawn up in conjunction
with the local authorities. In the
event of a major incident the holding
company is informed immediately.
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