Mercuria CSR Report 2021 - Flipbook - Page 55
2021 Corporate Social Responsibility
RECYCLING
PROJECTS
Mercuria is always looking for opportunities to lessen
our impact on the environment. Recycling is a key
component of this effort; we have had a sophisticated
recycling process in place in our offices for several
years now. Some offices now offer single-stream waste
recycling which means all office waste is passed through
a multi-stream handling system. These processes first
cull out materials that are not well suited for recycling,
such as food wastes and plastic bags, and then use
various processes to sort and recover aluminium, steel,
glass, plastic bottles, and paper / cardboard stocks.
All of our offices have segregated waste receptacles
facilitating recycling of office paper, metal cans and
plastic bottles.
Mercuria’s Biofuels Brunsbüttel facility continues to
demonstrate the enormous benefit industrial recycling
can offer. While the facility is capable of utilizing a wide
range of feedstocks to produce bio-diesel, for a number
of years the entire feedstock processed through this
facility has been comprised entirely of used cooking
oils. Historically, much of this feedstock would have
found its way to wastewater treatment plants or
landfills. Instead, Mercuria’s Biofuels Brunsbüttel
facility chemically converts this material into a valuable
energy commodity, demonstrating an environmentally
smart technical solution that is also commercially
attractive.
Mercuria, in line with our investment strategy, is
focused on investing in waste to energy technology.
The reuse of materials that would have otherwise been
sent to a landfill, contributes to Mercuria’s overarching
objective of adding value to the supply chain and acting
in a way that is environmentally responsible. A notable
example of this vision is the partnership formed with
N+P Group B.V. in the first half of 2021. This business
uses both conventional and proprietary processes to
produce fuel materials that can be used in place of
some conventional fuels- in particular coal. We are
excited for this partnership as we are for many of our
other efforts to support innovative efforts to develop
commercially sensible approaches to global recycling
and renewable energy challenges.
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