To govern the identified risk and negative value chain impact from using virgin materials, we have adopted a ‘Resource management policy’, covering all of our activities and locations. The policy’s objective is to ensure that we minimise the use and depletion of virgin resources by developing circular value chains together with our suppliers, where feasible, and guide our efforts on sustainable sourcing. It further addresses our adherence to the waste hierarchy, prioritising waste avoidance by reducing and reusing before recycling.

Waste is generally reported on the basis of invoices received from waste recipients, supplemented with plant-specific measurement methods for commercial facilities, including construction activities. Part of the oil-contaminated wastewater from the North Sea oil pipeline has been treated as waste and therefore reported as waste and not wastewater. Residual products, e.g., gypsum from the CHP plants, which are not handled as waste but sold as products, are not included. Soil from excavation projects is not included.