Our Sustainable Growth Plan
“Sustainability is in our DNA and it has been that way from day one. It’s not just a buzz word here; it’s who we are and what we do for a living.”
— Bob Preston, CEO
Grow Sustainably
Although all of the areas that we identified in our materiality assessment are important, Synagro will put a special emphasis on the top three topics as we set goals, make progress, and transparently report results.
After finalizing our materiality matrix, we developed our sustainability framework and strategy, with three key pillars to support our core sustainability themes and purpose, as illustrated below.
Our Sustainability Strategy
Growing sustainably means gaining a deeper understanding of how we can accelerate and grow our business to positively impact the environment and society.
Environmental
Greener World
We deliver environmentally beneficial products, services, and circular innovation.
Social
Passionate People
We value the creativity, diversity and safety of our employees, customers and communities.
Governance
Transparent Integrity
We foster a culture of business accountability and transparency.
Our Sustainable Growth Plan
Simply, we take waste that would have been sent to a landfill, and transform it into something valuable. The sustainable growth of our company has a meaningful impact to the ever-evolving circular economy.
Our Sustainable Growth Plan
Simply, we take waste that would have been sent to a landfill and transform it into something valuable. The sustainable growth of our company has a meaningful impact to the ever-evolving circular economy.
Sustainability Highlights
Environmental: Greener World
Approach
Synagro is uniquely positioned to drive sustainable practices and promote circularity in our own operations and among our customers.
Goals
Increase % of biosolids repurposed for beneficial use
Develop a carbon reduction roadmap and further verification of our efforts
Integrate new technologies to drive circular innovation and positive impact of our products
Increase our focus on food and organic waste composting for people and planet
Progress
Processed ~6.5 million tons of biosolids of which ~80% was reused for a beneficial purposeAccepted and processed more than100,000 tons of organic waste
Collaborated with CharTech Solutions to pilot an industry-first commercial system aimed at processing biosolids and destroying PFAS contaminants
SOCIAL: PASSIONATE PEOPLE
Approach
Passionate people are the heart of the Synagro operation and without them we could not uphold our vision to protect the health of our water, our Earth, and those who depend up on them now and for the future.
Goals
Achieve and maintain industry-leading safety performance.
Enhance and expand our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program.
Maintain our status as one of Baltimore’s Top Workplaces.
Conduct a companywide employee satisfaction survey.
Expand our community engagement programs
Progress
Outperformed industry average for employee health and safety
Outperformed industry average in overall company diversity and good Board diversity
Comprehensive employee health benefits program, training programs and development opportunities
Progress working with local communities and more to come!
Governance: Transparent Integrity
Approach
Synagro operates in a highly regulated industry, and as such it is essential that we maintain formal oversight of our material governance topics.
Goals
Continue to strengthen our data privacy and security policies
Maintain an average time of 30 days orless to resolve all ethics complaints
Increase transparency around governance-related KPIs and reporting.
Expand our sustainability governance and oversight policies
Progress
BoD dedicated a Sustainability and Risk Committee with an expert Chairperson
Ethics claims average resolved in less than 10 days
Robust environmental and regulatory compliance program
Evolving risk management program