NON-HAZARDOUS WASTE

AS WE COMMITTED to in our 2021 sustainability report, in 2022 Novolex implemented a comprehensive waste-to-landfill measurement program to enhance our monitoring and reduction of different waste streams. To support this endeavor, we established partnerships with Roadrunner Recycling, Valpak and Casella Waste Services. These partnerships enable us to track the quantity of waste sent to landfills and identify ways to divert more waste from landfills. In this year’s report we are pleased to share our progress.

Since we started our WASTE REDUCTION PROGRAM , Novolex has diverted over 5 MILLION POUNDS of waste that would have otherwise been sent to landfills.

For the first time we are able to report our waste disposal metric: 82% was recycled, and almost all of the rest, or 18%, was sent to landfills during 2022. The scope of our reported data includes facilities in the U.S., U.K., Mexico, Ireland and the Netherlands. It does not include Canadian sites this year. For sites in the U.S. and Mexico where data was unavailable, a waste intensity factor of 2.42 pounds per square foot was used to estimate waste at those facilities. Waste disposed of via other methods was not estimated. We will continue efforts to enhance the completeness of our reported data.

Hazardous Waste

NOVOLEX OPERATIONS GENERATE both non-hazardous and hazardous waste. Ensuring the proper tracking and management of hazardous waste is essential to mitigating environmental impacts, maintaining safe operations and safeguarding human health. As part of the Novolex comprehensive waste reporting effort, we monitor hazardous waste generation across our facilities where tracking and management are mandated due to both the volume of waste generated and regulatory requirements. Furthermore, we ensure recently acquired facilities implement initiatives to reduce hazardous waste, such as solvent capture and reuse programs. Together with the development of Novolex broader waste metrics, we are working to gather additional data on hazardous waste management to provide a comprehensive overview of companywide hazardous waste practices.

REDUCING WASTE: CUSTOMER PALLET REUSE PROGRAM

Johns Manville is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality insulation and commercial roofing. The company is also a customer of the Novolex Shields division, purchasing specialty “hooder” film to support product distribution. In 2022, the operations team at Johns Manville identified an opportunity to reuse the extra-large pallets used to ship products from the Novolex Coldwater, Ohio, facility to Johns Manville’s Hazelton, Penn., plant. After full pallets arrive at the Hazelton plant, they are collected and stored. Once enough pallets accumulate to fill a truck, the pallets are sent back to the Novolex Coldwater facility where they are refilled with the product to be shipped back to the customer. The process then repeats, reducing the unnecessary use of new pallets. Importantly, this partnership reduces material use and results in a lower cost of products to the customer.