More waste is not necessarily a problem. It can also be a sign of increased activity in waste and water management and a more effective effort in sorting and recycling.

Since 2023, our total waste volume has grown from 3,878 tonnes to 7,968 tonnes in 2024 and 9,367 tonnes in 2025. This is remarkable because business activity from 2024 to 2025 fell, while the waste volume continued to rise.

EPR legislation sets the direction

The increase in the volume of waste is therefore not due to increased activity, but rather a more systematic approach to sorting and changed handling of packaging as a result of new EPR legislation.
In cases where the packaging does not meet the requirements, we replace it with our own recyclable packaging before the products are forwarded to customers. This means that packaging that previously accompanied the product all the way now becomes part of our own waste stream and is handled correctly by us.

The result is that the proportion of residual waste has fallen significantly: from 33.8 % in 2023 to 19 % in 2024 and 11.8 % in 2025. The absolute amount of residual waste is thus almost the same as it was three years ago, even though we handle more than twice as much waste today. Today, 88.2 % of the waste volume we handle is recycled or recovered.

Steel and iron get their own handling

In 2025 we changed our procedure for handling steel and iron waste, which is now sorted and delivered to our partner Marius Pedersen. This ensures correct and responsible management of these fractions and at the same time provides us with concrete data on the quantities as part of our overall waste management overview.

Involving the entire value chain

Our warehouse staff play a central role in the daily sorting work. They are close to the goods and often the first to notice when packaging from suppliers is difficult to sort correctly. That observation is passed on to our Sustainability Lead, Christian, who contacts the suppliers in question to find better and more responsible packaging solutions moving forward. This is work that does not stop at our own premises, but reaches out across the entire value chain.

When we and our suppliers find packaging solutions that are better, more efficient or easier to sort, we move further than we can alone.