Waste utilisation

In year 2008 the amount of waste proportion to production decreased from the last year. All vulcanised rubber waste was delivered to utilisation for the first time for the whole year. In 2008 94.8% of waste was delivered to utilisation. The chart doesn't include the non-vulcanised waste recycled in internal production of buffing powder which is re-used in a process as a rubber mixings raw material.

The Finnish Legislation which requires certain waste batches (i.e. hazardous waste and liquid waste) to be delivered to special handling will limit the increase of the recycling rate in the future.

Waste delivered for further utilisation

As the graph shows, quite various wastes are delivered for further utilisation. The existing national collection and utilisation channels for different kinds of waste make the utilisation process easier. In most cases, waste is utilised as material. Apart from energy waste, only some scrap wood is utilised as
energy.

Nokian Tyres handles packaging utilisation jointly with the Environmental Register of Packaging PYR Ltd, a community of packaging-industry producers.
 

Hazardous waste in 2008

The total amount of hazardous waste, i.e. waste which requires special handling, was 325 tonnes in 2008, i.e. 4.1 kg/product ton (the amount of waste in 2007 was 297 tonnes i.e. 3.7 kg/product ton). All hazardous waste is taken to authorised hazardous waste processing plants.