Western Sweden’s leading environmental enterprise within recycling and waste! THIS IS RENOVA Vision Business concept Our services We place a value on We offer environmentally smart services • Advice, training and consultancy everything – for a and waste recycling for energy recovery services. and the production of new raw materials. sustainable future. • Collection and transportation of waste and recyclable materials. A fleet of • Sustainable waste management 1 ,153,400 and recycling. tonnes of recyclable • Services for property owners and 280 the construction industry. heavy vehicles. material and waste received in 2019. Certified management Owners systems Renova is owned by ten municipalities: The Renova Group has Ale, Gothenburg, Härryda, a certified environmental Kungälv, Lerum, Mölndal, Partille, management system (ISO Stenungsund, Tjörn and Öckerö. 14001:2015), as well as Gothenburg Municipality is the 762 certified quality (ISO majority shareholder with 86%. The employees 9001:2015) and work other nine municipalities share the environment (OHSAS remaining 14%. 18001:2007) systems. Sales of SEK

1,440 million in 2019. 1,500,800 MWH of district heating and 279,100 MWh of electricity RENOVA GROUP were generated at our waste-to-energy plant in 2019. LOCATIONS

Göteborg Härryda Ale: Garage. Fläskebo: Interim storage and landfill. Bönekulla: Garage. Kungälv Holmen: Administration, vehicle Rollsbo: Garage. workshop, stores, garage and Munkegärde: Sorting, interim storage, Postal address eco-friendly vehicle wash. transshipment. Box 156 Högsbo: Transshipment, sorting, interim Lerum SE-401 22 Gothenburg storage and recycling for companies. Transshipment station. Sweden Marieholm: Pre-treatment facility for biological waste and composting Mölndal Visiting address garden waste. Transshipment station. Gullbergs Strandgata 20-22 SE-411 04 Gothenburg Ringön: Sheet metal and machine shop. Stenungsund Switchboard Rödingen: Sorting and interim Kläpp: Transshipment, sorting, +46 (0)31-61 80 00 storage, baling. interim storage and recycling centre. Customer service Skräppekärr: Sorting and interim +46 (0)31-61 85 30 storage, recycling for companies. Sävenäs: Waste-to-energy plant, Recycling centres E-mail reception of hazardous waste and We operate recycling centres in [email protected] electronics, Renova’s environment Gothenburg and Stenungsund Website centre and administration. on behalf of these municipalities. renova.se Tagene: Landfill, interim storage, sorting and transshipment. 2020-04 FOCUSING ON THE CUSTOMER, EFFICIENT PLANTS WITH ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITY BENEFIT ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

The Renova Group is owned by ten municipalities in Waste-to-energy plant western Sweden. Our mission is to work together with our Re’nova’s waste-to-energy plant at Sävenäs in Gothenburg is owner municipalities in taking a long term responsibility for one of the world’s most advanced facilities for the incinera- waste and recycling. We aim to deliver community benefit tion of waste for the production of heating and electricity. through business activities which actively contribute to Around 300 trucks deliver waste to the plant on a daily sustainable development within our owners’ region. basis. The waste is burned in four furnaces and the thermal energy generated is then transformed into electricity and The Group consists of the parent company Renova AB and district heating. subsidiary Renova Miljö AB. From every tonne of waste combusted today, we recover The parent company is the owner-municipalities’ own 3.3 MWh of energy in the form of electricity and district waste expert and carries out tasks directly allocated by heating. 60 percent of our electricity production is label- them. led as biofuel-based origin. Every year, the waste-to-energy The subsidiary Renova Miljö AB operates on a plant provides approx. 33 percent of district heating in the competitive market and offers complete waste and region’s network and electricity covering the consumption recycling solutions to businesses, municipalities and other of 70.000 apartments. The flue gases from the combustion Sävenäs Waste-to-Energy Plant, Gothenburg. public enterprises in our owners’ region. process are cleaned in several stages. A plant for extraction Our goal is to always be able to offer the market›s best and recycling of zinc from the cleaning residues is now being CEO Anders Åström helps to pick up litter from the banks range of services within our industry, with environment, planned. Our landfill site at Tagene accepts materials such as exca- of the Säveån River as part of Renova’s RenovaRöjet quality and customer service remaining paramount Adjacent to the waste-to-energy plant is a reception faci- vated fill, asbestos and non-combustible waste. initiative, in partnership with Städa Sverige. lity for combustible biohazardous and classified waste. The Bottom ash (slag) from waste incineration is also sorted Activities within the Group: facility also includes the Renova Environment Centre, where here and metals are extracted. Any residual product is used • Collection and transportation of all types of field trips and training courses are held. as construction material. waste and recyclable materials RENOVA’S SUSTAINABILITY WORK This site is also used for the interim storage of various ma- • Sustainable waste management Treatment facility for biological waste terials, including, for example, combustible waste. A landfill • Services for property owners and the Renova’s vision is “We place a value on everything – for The Group’s treatment facility for sorted food waste is site for disposal of inert waste is being established, with the construction industry a sustainable future”. Our goal is to stop the increase in located at Marieholm in Gothenburg. After being mixed, first deliveries being received in 2020. • Advice and training waste generated within the community. Of the waste that compressed, strained and mixed with liquid food waste, the continues to be generated, as much as possible must be final product of this treatment facility is a slurry suitable for Hazardous waste and electronics returned to the community for use as new raw materials or biogas production. The pre-treatment facility for biological We receive, sort and temporarily store hazardous waste IN THE FOREFRONT OF VEHICLE products. waste is an important step towards increased biogas produc- from businesses at our new facility at Sävenäs. The waste is By correctly sorting our waste, for example recycling tion. then treated by Renova or one of our partners for recycling, AND FUEL DEVELOPMENT more plastic, we can also reduce our carbon footprint. The Marieholm plant also composts garden waste into destruction or safe storage. Renova is engaging with sustainability issues in a variety nutritious soil and compost. Renova also sorts small batteries collected from hous- Together with owners and partners Renova has a long histo- of ways. Within social sustainability, our initiatives eholds in a large number of municipalities in Sweden. ry of driving vehicle and fuel development with sustainabi- include providing new arrivals in Sweden with work Landfills We take in, sort and clean electronic waste to enable lity in focus. During 2019 the world’s first totally electrified placements and jobs through our Jobbspår At our Fläskebo landfill site, we offer landfill services for recycling of the materials. refuse truck starts its operations in the Renova fleet. waste and recycling scheme. non-combustible industrial waste and contaminated soil, Renova also participates in the development of an electri- Read more about our work to as well as some types of hazardous waste. Transshipment stations fied fuel cell refuse truck, which is fuelled by hydrogen. promote environmental, social To reduce the number of waste shipments, Renova All vehicles in Renova’s fleet use renewable fuels. Most of and economic sustainability in our reloads household waste into larger vehicles for shipment them use the synthetic diesel HVO, which is made from offal. Sustainability Report, which you can to energy recovery facilities. Smart route planning and eco driving are other important find atrenova.se tools for Renova to reduce its environmental impact. Sorting Waste from businesses, construction sites, etc, is brought to our facilities in Skräppekärr and Högsbo for further sorting. Recycling centres for businesses are also located here. All recyclable materials are recovered. Materials are also RENOVA ECO ACADEMY, COOPERATIONS AND SCHOLARSHIP stored prior to transport to various recycling companies. We also have a baling facility, mainly used for corrugated Renova Eco Academy is the umbrella for our education and We cooperate with universities and cardboard. visitor activities. other tertiary education institutions Eco Waste School for upper secondary school students on research in waste management, the Workshops and truck/car wash includes study visits, exercises and discussions where we environment and transportation solutions. Renova’s maintenance workshop repairs and maintains invite students to pose questions about how to achieve a There is no shortage of stimulating topics for research vehicles, containers and waste handling equipment for our sustainable society. projects at Renova. own vehicles and external customers. We also have a heavy We receive visitors from all over the world at our facilities, Since 2003, Renova has awarded an annual environmental vehicle wash, at which we offer eco-friendly washing. especially our waste-to-energy plant. award to young researchers from either Gothenburg We organise courses for companies and organisations. These University or Chalmers University of Technology. courses deal with sorting at the source, the management of hazardous waste and other environmental issues. Biological waste is accepted at the Marieholm pre-treatment facility.