We have always treated the environmental aspects of our activities sensitively. We have chosen to focus on key ways our facilities, products and services impact the environment.
As a sustainable company, we prioritize continuous improvement. This means we constantly review our processes to minimize the waste of resources. The result is a smaller environmental impact, with more efficient processes, better finances, a better customer offering and a contribution to society in terms of sustainable development.
We have signed up to the 17 UN Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Based on the expectations of ua as a state-owned company, our mission, our connection to the UN Global Compact and Fossil Free Sweden initiatives, as well as our stakeholders’ expectations and ambitions, we have chosen to prioritize six of the goals:
Based on these, we have formulated four long-term goals for sustainable growth and profitability to achieve by 2030:
Our goal is to reduce the overall amount of waste, including medical waste, and to increase the proportion of recycled waste. This contributes to Sweden’s environmental goals through:
In this way, we also contribute to the UN’s goals of sustainable consumption and production (Goal 12).
APL is one of the actors in the Fossil Free Sweden initiative, and we have taken a powerful charge of our energy consumption to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. For example, we have initiated detailed energy mapping of the company’s activities and installed separate meters to facilitate follow-up steps based on our energy consumption data.