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CHAPTER 4 | Ratti’s environmental commitment QUALITY CONTROL
4.4 Objective: to reduce waste
The management of waste
Ratti considers the production of waste to
be one of the main indicators of corporate sustainability and has set itself the objective of continuously reducing impacts, testing circular economy projects in which material discarded during the production process could become secondary raw material for other companies.
As in previous years, Ratti is continuing to monitor waste production according to KPIs for waste production on a quarterly basis, starting with the Guanzate plant. In 2018 a more advanced level of detail was achieved, monitoring discarded textile fibre by department.
This action has facilitated the development
of an initial sample analysis on a range of textile scraps, identifying any action that could be taken with regard to the excess quantity of fabric used.
On the basis of these results Ratti intends to widen the analysis in order to include further efficiency enhancement actions.
The reduction of discards was also the subject of efforts made by the CEO to raise employees’ awareness of the issue during the presentation of the company’s first Sustainability Report. For the event, work groups were specifically focused on fabric waste and the production
of printing paste.
All employees were asked to contribute, providing suggestions and ideas for improving all aspects of corporate sustainability.
Since most purchases are made in Italy, even those for the foreign production sites, most discards, along with the initiatives seeking to reduce them, are concentrated at the Guanzate plant.
As there is no production plant in Creomoda, the discards produced are negligible and are disposed of using specialised companies, in accordance with local applicable regulations.
In order to achieve increasingly detailed monitoring of the quantity and type of waste produced, since 2018 Ratti has committed itself to weighing, tracking and reporting the main categories of waste – paper, plastic, textile and undifferentiated waste – with the objective of also increasing the reduction of waste at the Tunisian plant.
In Textrom waste disposal takes place in accordance with local regulations, reporting the principal categories of waste and their destinations and
-8.96%
Kg of hazardous waste over metres of fabric produced
70%
Of hazardous waste to be recovered
68%
Of non-hazardous waste to be recovered
Avoiding waster by optimising the production of printing paste
In 2018 Ratti launched a project dedicated to monitoring and calculating the absorption of printing paste. A work team from the Printing department was specifically tasked with revising the tables in use for the absorption of printing paste by fabrics, with the aim of optimising production.
Following this first phase of the project, a second phase is now under way involving the installation of new machinery (Colour Kitchen) and the software to manage it (procol).
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