Orizon Sustainability and ESG Initiatives
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MANAGEMENT
OF WASTE
GRI 3-3: Management and best use of waste and tailings
The Brazilian Sanitation Framework, a law sanctioned in July 2020,
established that, by 2024, all open dumps in the country must have been
shutdown. In 2022, there were still 2,448 open dumps in operation,
causing enormous damage to the environment due to their lack of
infrastructure and failure to treat waste correctly. The expansion of Orizon
in 2022 has been in compliance with Brazilian legislation contributing
to waste ceasing to be a problem, transforming and optimizing different
lines of business.
The Brazilian scenario demonstrates that there is enormous growth
potential in the company's area of operation. The volume of waste
generated by the Brazilian public is calculated at approximately 82 million
tons per year, according to data published by the Ministry of the
Environment in October 2022. Every Brazilian generates, on average,
around one kilo of urban solid waste per day.
The Company works with firm protocols, in compliance with current
environmental legislation and is always innovating to develop new
products based upon what is generally referred to as garbage. By doing
so, it is creating solutions for companies and the government, whilst also
protecting ecosystems and public health. This is why the company does
not stop diversifying and, in 2022, began activities at two Mechanized
Sorting Plants, created the BioE company for the generation of biogas and
clean energy, and increased its number of ecoparks through acquisitions.
ORIZON'S ECOPARKS
An ecopark is made up of a group of structures and equipment which,
together, offer technological solutions for the correct treatment and
final disposal of solid waste. The composition of the waste, mainly due
to its origin, is extremely diverse, requiring the use of specific disposal
techniques, applied in accordance with the hierarchy established in the
National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS).
All of Orizon's units have been licensed based upon environmental impact
assessment studies. These studies vary in complexity depending upon
the size of the business and type of activity. However, they allow for the
mapping of all the unit's possible negative impacts and the mitigating
measures adopted for each item identified as such.
Based upon this, the relevant environmental organs issue the
environmental license setting out conditions that define the limits and
procedures in accordance with the legislation. Or in other words, targets
and commitments are established that are to be checked by means of
specific environmental monitoring programs that result in periodic reports
which are submitted to the environmental organ for analysis. Failure to
comply with these directives can lead to fines or even suspension of the
activities, meaning the Company should, therefore, follow them closely
during its operations and also following the termination of its activities.
The objective of the environmental monitoring programs is to obtain
information that allows an evaluation of the possible influence the business
activities have on different environments such as air, water, earth, fauna
IN 2022, ORIZON
STARTED THE
ACTIVITIES OF
TWO MECHANIZED
SORTING PLANTS
(MSPS) AND
FOUNDED THE
BIOE COMPANY
FOR THE
GENERATION OF
RENEWABLE GAS
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