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Sustainability

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We believe in driving lasting, meaningful change with our customers and communities. It’s our purpose and privilege to work through the toughest environmental challenges together, as we build a more sustainable world.

Ensuring a bright future in partnership with those we serve

As a leader with a long history of focusing on waste solutions, Reworld™ helps our customers take meaningful action toward sustainability. We can meet challenges at scale, to help businesses and communities large and small reduce, reuse, recycle and recover fuel and energy from waste materials. Our comprehensive solutions avoid landfill disposal and reduce our customers’ carbon footprints, helping them achieve both long- and short-term ESG goals.

Reworld Sustainability Report 2024

A clear look at how our passion is fueling powerful actions

You can count on us to be rigorous and transparent in our reporting. Get details about our sustainable processes and all the progress we’re making in our Sustainability Report.

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570 k
metric tons of methane emissions avoided per year
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19 M
tons of waste repurposed as fuel per year
Energy-TEAL
10 M
MWhe of energy from waste
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41 M
metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions avoided

Each step forward propels us to work harder toward our goals

We’re not satisfied with the targets others set for us. We’re aiming high and staying relentlessly focused on keeping up our momentum as we make progress on our objectives for positive change.

Mitigating Environmental Impacts

Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do, and we’re taking the lead toward a more circular economy. Our sustainability-linked financing framework supports our goal of increasing the amount of waste that gets recycled or reused by 25% by 2025.

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25% of 2025 target achieved

for sustainably processed waste
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65% of 2025 goal achieved

for waste recycled/reused

Environmental Justice

Since 2009, we have reduced emissions at our waste-to-energy facilities by up to 50%. As part of our pledge to further reduce emissions, we prioritized environmental justice for communities through the implementation of five projects in 2023.

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3 of 5

projects complete
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Air Quality Control System upgrades

in Stanislaus County, CA and Chester, PA

Fostering Diversity & Inclusion

We’re not just making statements about commitment to inclusion at ReworldTM — we’re actively working to ensure our workforce reflects the communities in which we operate. By 2030, 50% of our leadership positions will be held by women, and 37% by people of color.

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2 new programs

in diversity development launched for leadership and for interns in 2023
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More than 50% increase

in gender and racial diversity across the senior management team in 2023

Sustainability Report

Find out where we’re going, what we’re excited about and what we’re proud to have achieved.

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Sustainability Resources

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