ESG/CSR Report 2024/2025
A Year of Change
The past year has in many ways been a year of both significant progress and important realizations. We have experienced positive development in our metal business, where tonnage and earnings have remained at a high level. At the same time, our collaboration with the producer responsibility organization Elretur has opened the door to a new and promising business area focused on the reuse and recycling of electronics.
At the same time, however, we must acknowledge that our financial performance does not meet our own ambitions. We have a responsibility to ensure that HJHansen Recycling Group remains a company in growth – a company that adds value rather than detracts from it.
Ambitions and Responsibility
ESG efforts are central to our development. Many companies are no longer required to report under CSRD. Although the requirements have been eased, we will remain ambitious and take responsibility for the role we play in society and within our industry. Therefore, we have appointed a Head of Environmental Policy to strengthen our environmental policy efforts and ensure that we stay ahead of current and upcoming legislation.
At the same time, we have adopted an ESG policy which, at Group level, will serve as our concrete management tool. Here, we set the direction for how we will reduce negative impact and strengthen positive contributions.
These are just some of the initiatives aimed at positioning us as a driving force towards more responsible and circular resource utilization.
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Highlights
Climate Goals
We will reduce our climate impact by
%
before 2034 and become climate-neutral by 2050.
Clevertrack
All machines have now been equipped with Clevertrack, enabling us to collect data on usage patterns and idle time. This allows us to optimize utilization and maintenance, and next year we will implement automatic shutdown during idle periods.
Learn more in our report on page 19.
Electronic Reuse & Recycling
The brand-new facility for sorting electronics for reuse opened in September. The ambition is to process 100,000 units for reuse annually.
Learn more in our report on page 34.
Ecovadis
This year, we have maintained our “Silver rating” with a score of 69/100. This places us in the top 15% of companies within the Materials Recovery Industry.
Learn more in our report on page 17.
ISO Certifications
This year, we have achieved ISO certification at significantly more sites
- ISO 9001 for quality: increased from 3 to 10 sites
- ISO 14001 for environmental management: increased from 10 to 16 sites
- ISO45001 for occupational health and safety: increased from 3 to 10 sites
Learn more in our report on page 38.
ESG Training
During the financial year, we collaborated with UCL on education and training within sustainability and the green transition. Three groups completed courses focused on strengthening participants’ knowledge and competencies in sustainability and ESG in their daily work.
Learn more in our report on page 40.
Employee Development Reviews with all employees
Employee Development Reviews (MUS) are a central part of HJHansen Recycling Group’s work with employee well-being and development. During the financial year, 90% of all permanent employees with one year of seniority have completed an employee development review.
Learn more in the report on page 41.
Action Cards
This year, we have completed our action cards with guidelines for firefighting, first aid, and evacuation. They have been distributed to all sites.
Learn more in the report on page 37.
Approved Buyer System
The Approved Buyer System (ABS) is our database for collecting and storing data from our off-takers, including environmental approvals, signed Codes of Conduct, and audit reports.
Audited customers account for
%
of our sales revenue in 2024/2025.
Within the EEA
We achieved our target of auditing all customers within the EEA in the financial year 2024/2025. As expected, we did not identify any violations or concerning conditions. Going forward, audits will be maintained on a rolling cycle of a maximum of three years.
In addition to the auditing process, this also provided a valuable opportunity to visit our customers, enabling deeper dialogue about our future collaboration, their visions, and how trading processes will develop in the coming years.
Learn more in the report on page 54.
Outside the EEA
We have set a target that all our off-takers outside the EEA must be audited by the end of the financial year 2026/2027. During this financial year, we completed five out of six planned audits.
No violations of human rights or instances of child labour were identified during the audits conducted.
Learn more in the report on page 54.