Annual Report - Sens
Annual Report - Sens
Annual Report - Sens
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Outlook<br />
Aims for 2012:<br />
four winners<br />
Following another successful financial year, SENS has set itself specific aims for 2012.<br />
We intend to make the most of our leading position in the industry so that we can carry<br />
on setting benchmarks for sustainability and efficient, holistic solutions together with<br />
our partners in the future.<br />
In 2012 SENS is concentrating its activities on four key areas:<br />
sustainability, expertise, networks and solutions, bearing in<br />
mind the future direction of the strategy decided in 2011, which<br />
enables us to build on our achievements so far and fully prepare<br />
ourselves to face future challenges. This provides the<br />
perfect starting point for accomplishing our tasks and objectives<br />
successfully.<br />
Sustainability – sustainable recycling<br />
SENS has been providing its partners with individual holistic<br />
solutions for using resources efficiently and therefore sustainably<br />
for more than 20 years. In 2012 we are continuing to concentrate<br />
our efforts on further developing our exemplary, sustainable<br />
recycling system, building on our past achievements.<br />
This includes anticipating future trends<br />
and market requirements and already<br />
starting work on solutions for tomorrow’s<br />
challenges today.<br />
With this in mind we are continuing to work hard on developing<br />
innovative products, including solar panels and golf caddies,<br />
and on the recycling challenges they pose. Other issues are<br />
urban mining (rare metals) and cradle-to-cradle (closing material<br />
cycles once and for all). In these areas sustainability means<br />
that the recycling and reuse of commodities should have a<br />
fundamental impact on product development. SENS expertise<br />
in these issues can make a major contribution to sustainable<br />
recycling in the future.<br />
Expertise – sound specialist knowledge<br />
SENS expertise encompasses many levels: as regards waste,<br />
SENS monitors strict compliance with the legally required, high<br />
recycling and waste disposal standards, providing its partners<br />
with an efficient infrastructure. SENS uses the advance recycling<br />
fee to ensure that the logistics systems are optimised and the<br />
services are competitively financed. In the coming year SENS<br />
will be drawing on its many years of experience and its expertise<br />
in the VREG revision process in particular: our aim is to<br />
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introduce an obligation to pay the ARF, from which those companies<br />
affiliated to private take-back and recycling systems<br />
have so far been exempt.<br />
Together with our partners we are<br />
committed to a revision that promotes<br />
the existing, extremely successful<br />
approach of the private sector.<br />
The basis on which we shall achieve this aim is not only our<br />
many years of experience and expertise, but also our wide<br />
network of relevant partners.<br />
Network – profitable relationships<br />
The sustainable relationships with our partners guarantee, on<br />
the one hand, our exemplary behaviour towards the environment<br />
and, on the other, economically valuable processes. We<br />
do not look on our partners as service providers, but essentially<br />
as colleagues with whom we can design and develop<br />
efficient processes.<br />
Continually developing the network<br />
of profitable partnerships within the<br />
relevant interest groups was and is an<br />
essential ingredient of our success.<br />
This is why we are continually strengthening our relationships<br />
with committed, expert partners from the following sectors:<br />
manufacturing and imports, retailing, recycling and waste collection<br />
and disposal. In addition, as a member of the European<br />
platform for dialogue and competence, the WEEE Forum, we<br />
are constantly extending our international contacts. In 2012,<br />
using the Swiss and international networks for revising the<br />
VREG will be especially important, so that the VREG can offer<br />
the recycling industry future-oriented, sustainable solutions.<br />
Solution – efficient, holistic solutions<br />
SENS solutions always integrate environmental and economic<br />
aspects.