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Elis’s net zero roadmap
This major commitment is the next step on a journey to reduce our emissions which started over ten years ago and which has been certified over several years by The Carbon Trust. As part of this ambition, we especially aim to:
1) Increase the value of our products
by improving their resource efficient design, lifespan and end-of-life use: by 2025 at least one collection made of 100% sustainable materials in every product group 2) Promote sustainable decision-
making by reducing, reusing, repurposing, or recycling materials and products: by 2025, 80% of textiles recycled 3) Improve our direct and indirect impact
environmental greenhouse
and gas emissions caused
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activities: reduce as much as we can to reach net zero by 2045; by 2025, increase the number of eco-friendly vehicles
We are also looking at new ways to reduce waste, such as: • Reusing plastic detergent containers • Exchanging linens
• Shifting from plastic film to boxes for packaging • Restoring and reusing 2 million hangers per year
• Transforming end-of-life textiles into insulating materials or automotive parts
• Maintaining, cleaning and reusing transport equipment (trolleys, boxes, stacks)
What does it mean for Elis UK?
• Choosing to reuse: reducing clinical waste, and increasing product sustainability, with the use of our reusable surgical textiles. • Continuing to improve energy efficiency in our operations: for example, by using innovative detergent technologies and transforming our processes to reduce water and energy consumptions, investigating alternative sources such as biogas or biomass, solar panels installations or use of renewable electricity. • Continually improving our fleet and delivery channels: transitioning our fleet towards alternative vehicles, reducing fuel consumption by densifying our delivery channels and optimizing our delivery routes and loads; deploying a unique fleet management tool; promoting eco-driving. • Working on our products longevity and materials: extend them when possible, select the best materials, work to reduce product losses.
• Working with our suppliers to identify lower carbon alternatives. • Further developing refuse and recycling to add value to our textiles at the end of their life, such as rags, insulating materials for automotive parts and investigating textile-to-textile recycling schemes. • Developing new partnerships with our customers, suppliers and eco-system to reduce emissions along the value chain and identify innovative approaches.
This journey will benefit our customers with an even
lower carbon footprint service over the years, and until we reach our ultimate target.
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