Tarkett: Availability of the Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility (CSR) report
March 18 2021 - 1:15PM
Tarkett: Availability of the Corporate Social & Environmental
Responsibility (CSR) report
After ten years of pioneering
progress, Tarkett is embarking on the second chapter in its
sustainability strategy
PARIS, FRANCE, March 18,
– On Global Recycling Day, Tarkett, a worldwide leader
in innovative and sustainable flooring and sports surface
solutions, releases its 2020 Corporate Social & Environmental
Responsibility (CSR) report. Fully audited by KPMG1, this report
showcases the company’s ongoing sustainability
performance.
“In the last ten years, we have achieved strong
progress in sustainability. In many cases we have exceeded our 2020
objectives, developing circular economy initiatives, reducing our
carbon footprint and eco-designing our products with healthy
materials”, says CEO Fabrice Barthélemy. “Opening a second chapter
in its sustainability strategy, Tarkett is leading the way in its
industry. As part of our Change to Win strategy, we invest in
circular economy, and tackle our carbon footprint across the value
chain. By building cohesive partnerships with customers, suppliers
and leading players, we amplify our impact making conscious choices
for people and the planet. This approach will allow us to seize new
opportunities of sustainable growth, and contribute to a global
green recovery for present and future generations.”
Tarkett’s maturity in sustainability has been
recently recognized by improved extra-financial ratings, both from
the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP climate rating: B – management
level) and EcoVadis (platinum medal, the highest level of maturity
in sustainability a company can reach).
Tarkett ramps up its recycling
program, by transforming end-of-use flooring and recycled materials
into new floors, ultimately reducing waste and carbon
footprint.
- 109,000
tons of flooring were collected between 2010 and 2020 as part of
our Restart® take-back and recycling program in Europe, North
America and Brazil.
- Nine
recycling centers integrated into our production sites in eight
countries are up and running.
- 13% of
our raw materials (127,000 tonnes per year) are recycled materials
in 2020. Our goal is to reach 30% by 2030, versus 10% in 2018.
Tarkett reduces its carbon
footprint.
- Tarkett
decreased its greenhouse gas emissions by -27% between 2010 and
2020, going beyond its initial objective of -20%. The goal for 2030
is to reduce our carbon footprint by 30%.2
- Eight
production sites in seven countries are sourcing 100% renewable
electricity.
- In 2020,
we have launched iQ Natural, one of the lowest carbon footprint
resilient flooring solutions on the market.3
- We
avoided 253,000 tons of C02e along the value chain (scope 3) thanks
to the use of 127,000 tons of recycled materials, instead of using
virgin raw materials and sending waste to incineration.4 This
represents more than the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions
of our production sites in 2020 (198,500 tons of C02e – Scope
1&2).
Tarkett selects good materials as
part its eco-design approach.
- Since
2010, we are partnering with the scientific institute EPEA5 to
apply Cradle to Cradle® (C2C) principles throughout our
activities. Now, 98% of our raw materials - representing more than
5,000 materials - are third-party assessed for their impact on
people’s health and the environment based on Cradle to Cradle®
criteria (C2C).
- Tarkett
has twenty Cradle-to-Cradle certifications, covering a wide range
of product categories, including carpet, linoleum, rubber, wood,
and artificial turfs (2020). Five product collections have reached
the Gold level, the most in the flooring sector.
Major recent examples illustrating
our circular economy commitment:
-
Tarkett is the only carpet manufacturer in Europe
capable to fully recycle its commercial carpet tile.
Thanks to its innovative recycling factory in Waalwijk
(Netherlands), Tarkett separates the EcoBase® backing to be
recycled in its own production site and the fiber to be regenerated
by its supplier Aquafil.
- Tarkett
partnered with Gecina, the largest office real
estate company in Europe, to recycle used carpet tiles from
Gecina offices in Paris. 38 tons, representing 8,600
m² of carpet tiles, were sent to our carpet recycling center in
Waalwijk (Netherlands).
- During
the renovation of the Moscone Convention Center in San
Francisco (USA), we recycled close to 70 tons of our
cushioned carpet tile after 17 years of use. These materials were
sent to the Tarkett Dalton recycling center (Georgia, USA),
diverting it from landfill or incineration.
-
As part of a collaboration with IKEA, we recaptured
10,000 m² of used vinyl flooring from IKEA Kungens Kurva department
store in Stockholm, Sweden, and turned it into new raw material
inside our recycling center in Ronneby. New flooring
produced from the recycled raw material from Kungens Kurva is
already successfully installed at the IKEA store in Jönköping. This
project is estimated to have saved close to 100 tons of CO₂
emissions, the amount of carbon sequestered by 5.500 tree seedlings
grown for 10 years.
1 The CSR report is fully audited by KPMG as an independent
third party.
2 Goal: reduce our GHG intensity in our production plants by 30%
by 2030 vs 2020 (Scope 1&2 intensity kgCO2e/m2).
3 iQ Natural, the world’s first floor to use bio-attributed PVC
certified through the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB),
has precisely a 61% lower embodied carbon compared to average
homogeneous flooring. Embodied carbon is the carbon footprint of a
material—the sum of all the carbon dioxide resulting from the
mining, harvesting, processing, manufacturing, transportation and
installation of building materials.
4 The impact of using secondary raw materials is calculated
using best available data on CO2 emissions for virgin raw material
production and incineration, based on life-cycle analysis models of
Tarkett’s formulations using data from Ecoinvent, specific supplier
data and plant environmental reporting.
5 Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency
- PR_Tarkett_CSR_Report_18_03_2021
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