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An environment worth protecting
We strengthen our activities using natural resources more efficiently and making a positive contribution to environmental and climate protection by relying on new technologies, increasing on renewable energies, and developing processes to reduce our impact on the environment.
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Confirm Yes, I am a health care professional. Cancel No, I am not a health care professional.B. Braun is striving to continuously reduce its energy consumption through energy efficiency projects. During the continuous development of our infrastructures, we are led by state-of-the-art technology, and we align our processes accordingly. We are increasingly supplying our production facilities with renewable energy, including geothermal energy, wind and solar power, and energy from hydroelectric or biomass power plants. We evaluate the supply of energy by our utility providers regularly, at least annually, and look for solutions to increase the percentages of renewable energy.
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Change in percent | |
| Renewable energy sources | 26.8 | 26.8 | 34.1 | 7.3 |
| Fossil energy sources | 73.2 | 73.2 | 65.9 | -7.3 |
We have set the goal of reducing CO2-emissions at our B. Braun sites by a total of 50 percent by 2030. We are planning to make our new construction and buildings undergoing fundamental renovation CO2-neutral as of 2023.
By communicating our CO2 reduction target worldwide for the first time, we were able to spur each location into making significant contributions to CO2 reduction using targeted energy-saving projects. Since the 2020 reporting period we had a reduction in absolute CO2-emissions (CO2-eq) of 9.6 percent.
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Change in percent | |
| CO2-emissions (Scope 1&2) | 581.7 | 605.2 | 528.6 | -9.6 |
The B. Braun Executive Board and the European Workers’ Council have agreed to uniform environmental, health and safety standards. This is how we ensure a uniform procedure and comparable management structures in all European production locations for these topics. We are also guided by these standards outside Europe. By 2023, we will also gradually extend this to all production sites worldwide. Implementation is carried out by those responsible in the respective countries.
In 2022, our environmental management system at a production site in Indonesia was certified under ISO 14001. This means that 77 percent of the production sites in our reporting countries have already established a certified environmental management system in accordance with ISO 14001/EMAS.
Using a system of randomized internal audits, we regularly evaluate our production sites for deviations from our standards. This enables these sites to implement a continuous improvement process. We particularly focus on the continuous improvement of energy efficiency. To do this, we are introducing intelligent energy management systems based on ISO 50001 global requirements.
New technology and the digital transformation will be crucial when it comes to shaping the world of medical technology and the health care industry of tomorrow.
We use modern building technology and implement energy efficiency measures at our sites, such as avoiding losses in our pressurized air networks in production facilities. With the new construction of our disinfection plant N.I.C.O. (New Infection Control Organization) at the Sempach site (Switzerland), the first production facility in the B. Braun Group to rely on CO2-neutral heat generation will be launched in 2023.
Discover N. I. C. O.Water is one of the most important resources for the production of our products. We obtain 90 percent of our water from public and private utility companies. The rest of the water comes from our own wells and surface sources. For us, minimizing water use in all of our processes is a matter of course. This particularly applies to production sites in regions where water is scarce. We regularly analyze whether B. Braun locations are located in water risk areas as defined by the World Resources Institute. At these locations, we step up measures to use water more efficiently. This includes making collected effluent reusable.
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Change in percent | |
| Water withdrawal (in thousands of cubic meters) | 7,400.0 | 6,778.3 | 6,688.7 | -9.6 |
| Wastewater discharge (in percent) | 77.4 | 77.0 | 73.6 | -3.8 |
| Water consumption (in percent) | 22.6 | 23.0 | 26.4 | 3.8 |
We consider waste as valuable materials that we separate, recycle as often as possible, and return to the value creation cycle. On average, more than 67 percent of waste is recycled, meaning that separately collected materials are reused (recycled) according to their material properties. Adding waste that is incinerated in order to use its energy to generate heat and electricity increased our recycling rate to 87.4 percent in 2022.
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Change in percent | |
| Hazardous waste (in metric kilotons) | 9.9 | 9.5 | 10 | 0.9 |
| Non-hazardous waste (in metric kilotons) | 50.1 | 55.8 | 51.2 | 2.3 |
| Total waste (in metric kilotons) | 60.0 | 65.3 | 61.3 | 2.0 |
| Reuse ratio (in percent) | 86.8 | 86.6 | 87.4 | 0.6 |
| Recycling ratio (in percent) | 60.7 | 63.5 | 67.4 | 6.7 |
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