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Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist IKEA Ballymun [email protected] IKEA Implementing Sustainable Practices

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IKEA Implementing Sustainable Practices. Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist IKEA Ballymun [email protected]. Introduction. IKEA Sustainability Overview. Sustainability?: a balance between social needs, environmental protection and economic growth - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist IKEA  Ballymun mark.finnegan@ikea

Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist

IKEA

Ballymun

[email protected]

IKEA Implementing Sustainable Practices

Page 2: Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist IKEA  Ballymun mark.finnegan@ikea

Introduction

Page 3: Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist IKEA  Ballymun mark.finnegan@ikea

IKEA Sustainability Overview

• Sustainability?: a balance between social needs, environmental protection and economic growth

• IKEA Sustainability Direction: IKEA’s business should have an overall positive impact on people & the environment

• Sustainability Structure throughout the IKEA Group incl. procurement, logistics, food, property, manufacturing, forestry and retail – sustainability managers, specialists and co-ordinators.

Page 4: Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist IKEA  Ballymun mark.finnegan@ikea

IKEA Business Plan 2011

• Sustainability is one of four key cornerstones in the IKEA business plan.

Page 5: Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist IKEA  Ballymun mark.finnegan@ikea

IKEA Sustainability Current Projects

• IKEA WAY: Social & environmental protection – code of standard

• IKEA Goes Renewable: Reducing CO2 & utilising green energy

• EMS Monitoring: Waste, energy, water, non-car transport, community support

• Never Ending List: Communication & raising awareness

• Local community & charity work• Environment & Recovery Dept. – waste

minimisation and waste management

Page 6: Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist IKEA  Ballymun mark.finnegan@ikea

• Ground source heating/cooling system – 158 bores, 90m deep, 65% carbon

reduction = energy savings for 300 homes

• No oil or gas connection

• Biomass Burner: 650kw – heat water & loading bay area = 24% carbon

reduction

• Rainwater harvesting – UV treated & used for flushing toilets

IKEA Goes Renewable - Dublin

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• Waste: 90% recycle rate • Energy: 10% reduction on 2010 total

(kwhs)• Transport: 25% of employees use

sustainable transport & 15% of customers• 75% Recovery Index for damaged

products/packaging, ex-display and customer returns

IKEA Sustainability KPIs – 2011

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Sustainability results – Dublin 2010

• Waste: 91% recycle rate • 80 tonnes of customer WEEE & packaging

take back• Energy: 2010 (baseline year) buy green

energy• Transport: 47% of employees use sustainable

transport & 8% of customers• 71% Recovery Index • Planted 5 acres of native woodland in Fingal –

IKEA Family & Tree Council of Ireland • 90% of employees completed sustainability

training (excl. induction)

Page 9: Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist IKEA  Ballymun mark.finnegan@ikea

Future Sustainability Focus

• Offer a range of products that are more

sustainable – Product Scorecard

• Take a lead role towards a low carbon society

– IGR, customer electric vehicle chargers…

• Turn waste into a resource eg Closing the

Loop project on furniture reuse

• Reduce our water footprint

• Take social responsibility

Page 10: Mark Finnegan, Environment Specialist IKEA  Ballymun mark.finnegan@ikea

Thank You

‘Sustainability is our ultimate goal…We’re only at

the beginning of our journey towards a sustainable

IKEA range’

Thomas Bergmarkex-Sustainability ManagerIKEA Group