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Chapter 5 | Ratti’s environmental commitment

The transport of waste to recycling and disposal
facilities in Ratti SpA BC is carried out by third
parties, except for specific cases in which the
company is authorised to do it itself, in accordance
with Article 212, paragraph 8 of Legislative Decree
152/2006. The company always checks that
the means used by the third-party company is
appropriately authorised to transport waste, by
consulting the national register of environmental
managers. The recycling and disposal of waste is Ratti applies the local waste
carried out at third-party facilities, and is subject to management regulations for each country
the controls established by the public authorities.
in which it operates, organises separate
For Creomoda and La Maison des Accessoires, waste collection and contracts
where there are no production facilities, only out the disposal/recycling of waste
modest amounts of waste are produced in to authorised third parties.
comparison with the Guanzate site. Such
amounts are recycled/disposed of by specialised
companies in accordance with the legislation in As far as monitoring is concerned, the production
place. In order to implement monitoring that is of waste is subject to internal reporting. On
increasingly detailed in terms of quantity and type the basis of the data collected the members of
of waste produced, since 2018 Ratti has made staff, comprising the head of the Environmental
a commitment to weigh, trace and report the Management System and the coordinator of the
main types of waste – paper, plastic, textile and Working Group on Sustainability, interact with
unsorted waste, with the aim of improving its waste the production line to analyse performance and
management. The waste produced is managed ensure that all necessary improvement measures
by a third party, which is responsible for the have been adopted.
transportation, recycling and disposal of the waste.
For certain types of waste an agreement has been The Group monitors the production of waste
reached with a company accredited by the State. using KPIs on a monthly basis, as provided for
The Environmental Agency of the Republic of in the Environmental Management System. This
Tunisia carries out all necessary checks on such also covers the performance of the subsidiaries
companies, verifying compliance. in Tunisia and Romania. In addition, as stipulated
in the relevant Italian legislation, Ratti SpA BC
At the Textrom site, finally, waste disposal takes compiles a register of inflows and outflows of
place in accordance with local regulations, waste, transport documentation and an annual
reporting the principal categories of waste and MUD declaration.
their destinations and having launched a study of
projects aimed at improving performance. In general the KPIs used to evaluate the
The transportation, recycling and disposal of the effectiveness of waste management policies are
waste is managed by third-party contractors. the absolute production of waste, the relative
production of waste for metres of fabric produced,
The amount of waste produced by the Group’s the breakdown by hazardous waste and non-
companies can be divided into three main hazardous waste and, finally, the destination
categories: (recycling/disposal) of the waste. These KPIs are
constantly reviewed by Systems Management in
- waste from production; the Ratti Group.
- waste from activities associated with
the maintenance of buildings and the The Ratti Group’s attention is not devoted
maintenance of machinery; exclusively to the waste produced by its own
- waste from packaging companies. Instead, it looks beyond that to
encompass what is happening downstream
The amount of waste linked to maintenance of from its organisation.
buildings/maintenance of machinery is in no way
correlated with the Group’s annual production. To this end, waste that is produced downstream
However, it is strongly conditional on any building from the organisation is represented by products,
sites associated with renovation projects or the whether fabrics or accessories, and packaging
revamping of the production areas. bound for customers. Fabrics provided to

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