Our people making a difference is a series featured throughout
With over 25 years' experience in environmental management, circularity, decarbonization, and policy,
On the need to rethink our approach to waste
Waste needs to become a raw material. If you do that, you can really grow without being that dependent on your resources. There is a sustainability element to this, but also a bit of a strategic element, because we cannot keep mining and extracting our raw materials. In
On what set
First of all, there's a strong, innovative, technology-driven focus here, in combination with a marketdriven approach. We work with our customers and value chains to see things from their perspective. We understand the markets and the regulations, and this is the basis for the strategies we set.
Secondly, we are an innovative company that is really agile, enabling us to develop, test, and implement new things, and this combination is quite powerful. It's a collaboration across teams and businesses with a lot of interaction and overlap, and we are progressing extremely well. The team is really enthusiastic, and I'm amazed by the level of engagement I see in the people. They're really growing in their leadership and pushing it further. This is really a positive dynamic I see in
On the need for an integrated strategy for sustainability
Circularity is not one solution fits all. You need to be circular and decarbonize and reduce environmental impacts. This is an important thing about circularity - it's about winning together. We provide solutions for customers' waste and we give it back as a solution for them. We are first focusing on our customer's waste, where our customers win and our end markets win - and we are an essential part of that chain. We need to do it together. On circularity, it's not only internal with
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