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Apetit Group’s waste streams are almost entirely non-hazardous waste that is either recovered or used in energy production. Nearly half of the entire Group’s waste is biowaste from the Säkylä frozen foods plant, consisting mainly of vegetable peeling waste and sidestreams from harvest season vegetables.
The process at the Kantvik vegetable oil milling plant is almost completely free of side streams, and only a small amount of landfill waste is generated at the plant. In addition to biowaste, the plant generates waste streams that are channelled to energy production as industrial biowaste. Some of the Kantvik plant’s waste streams, such as the screening fraction of oilseeds, can be utilised in the oil milling plant’s in-house bioenergy production.
Hazardous waste accounts for less than 0.1 per cent of the Group’s waste streams. Apetit Group’s waste is processed by an external operator that handles for the appropriate disposal of waste.
Waste generated by the end products produced by Apetit consist of packaging waste and potential food waste. Apetit aims to increase the degree of recyclability of the packaging materials it uses. Of the consumer packaging waste of Apetit products, 40 per cent is recyclable paperboard, 31 per cent is recyclable plastic, and 25 per cent is plastic that can not be recovered in recycling.
Apetit Group’s operations do not generate wastewater that is directly hazardous to the environment. Water that is used at the Säkylä plant to process harvest season vegetables and thus contains nutrients goes through Apetit’s own wastewater treatment plant, the operations of which are subject to authorisation. If the water were to be released into the environment without treatment, it would increase eutrophication.
The amount of waste in the reporting year was increased by more detailed reporting of soil and sludge, construction work, and the infrequent turnover rate of some types of waste, which causes variation between years.
The bioenergy plant built at the Kantvik vegetable oil milling plant uses the milling plant’s own side streams in energy production. The straw waste that comes with oilseeds is used as raw material for the bioenergy plant, which reduces the amount of the plant’s waste processed elsewhere.
The energy solution deployed at the Säkylä plant in 2023 enables the use of biosteam. The brush scrubbers and steam peelers deployed at the Säkylä frozen foods plant have significantly improved root vegetable yield by reducing the amount of material ending up as peeling waste.