Orizon Sustainability and ESG Initiatives
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GRI SUMMARY
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NATIONAL PRESENCE
GRI 2-1, 2-6
In 2022, the number of Orizon's ecoparks rose from five to 13, meaning
it almost tripled the volume of waste it now manages. Its operations,
which were concentrated in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco
and Paraíba, expanded to include important states such as São Paulo,
Sergipe, Alagoas, Mato Grosso and Goiás.
This expansion was made possible by the purchase and incorporation,
in 2022, of the landfill assets belonging to Estre Ambiental. This means
that Orizon now has three Ecoparks in São Paulo, in the cities of Paulínia,
Tremembé and Itapevi. It has also started operating in Alagoas and Sergipe.
Orizon moved into Mato Grosso state through the purchase of a sanitary
landfill in the city of Várzea Grande, in the metropolitan region of Cuiabá.
Orizon invested approximately R$ 70 million in the acquisition and
improvements to transform it into the Pantanal Ecopark.
With a significant rise in the number of units, Orizon has guaranteed
the raw-material necessary to expand its lines of business: generation
of biogas, biomethane, renewable energy, carbon credits, manufacture of
fuel derived from waste and recovery of recyclables.
The geographical expansion of Orizon's operations has also helped us to
be able to shutdown the activities of two open dumps, known as 'lixões'
in Portuguese, in the regions of Várzea Grande and Cuiabá, thus stopping
the incorrect disposal of many tons of waste in the Center-West region
of the country, which are now being treated at the Pantanal Ecopark.
Another point of note is that the Belford Roxo plant which performed the
incineration process, was shut down in 2022 since it no longer fitted with
the Company's line of business.
WITH THE SIGNIFICANT
INCREASE IN THE
NUMBER OF PLANTS,
ORIZON IS ENSURING
RAW-MATERIALS
TO EXPAND ALL ITS
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