Anaergia Inc. Burlington, Ontario, has released its 2021 environmental, social governance (ESG) report. The report highlights Anaergia’s ESG achievements for 2021, including emissions avoided, feedstock processing and renewable natural gas (RNG) production.
The company is reporting a net total of 465,000 metric tons (CO2 equivalent) of greenhouse gas emissions that Anaergia projects helped avoid, which is about 41 times more than what the company’s operations produced. The analysis includes estimated emissions avoided at facilities under Anaergia’s operational control, and third-party facilities commissioned since 2010 that operate using Anaergia’s technologies at design specification. The report also includes an overview of Anaergia’s social and governance practices.
“Our inaugural report is focused on the ‘E’ in ESG, naturally, because our company was created to address the climate crisis,” says Andrew Benedek, chairperson and CEO of Anaergia. “This report quantifies the effects of Anaergia’s technologies and projects, which address a leading cause of climate change, the problem of methane emissions from waste. We are turning this methane emissions problem on its head. Instead of allowing waste to cause climate change, we are using it to create a much-needed carbon-negative renewable fuel. Doing so can address about two-thirds of all point-source methane emissions.”
Other highlights from the report include:
approximately 8 million metric tons annually of feedstock processing capacity;
5 million MMBtu per year of RNG production capacity; and
134 megawatts of renewable electricity generation capacity.
These capacities include Anaergia Build-Own-Operate (BOO) facilities that are in operation and in execution, as well as third-party facilities commissioned since 2010 that use Anaergia’s technology solutions at design specification.
With the addition of six facilities to the company’s BOO portfolio, the company says it’s on track to more than triple operational RNG production capacity in the coming years. It also installed significant production capacity at third-party facilities on four continents.
The company also:
invested nearly $400 million in clean energy infrastructure globally to date;
created 91 green jobs in 2021; and
Adopted seven new governance policies and codes.
The report can be viewed and downloaded here.
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