BIC - 2020 Universal Registration Document

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY

Our industrial sites and offices [NFPS]

Hazardous industrial waste Some factories are equipped with wastewater treatment plants to treat hazardous waste, such as that from the surface treatment workshops, transforming it into metal hydroxide sludge that can be processed to eliminate almost all risk to the environment. The results achieved by the BIC Group in 2020 regarding the production and management of hazardous waste are as follows: a 15% decrease in the quantity of hazardous waste per ton of production between 2019 and 2020, mainly resulting from Group’s optimization of industrial processes and equipment the decrease.

ANNUAL PRODUCTIONOFWASTE NORMALIZED TO PRODUCTION – IN TONS/TON – BIC GROUP

Non-hazardous waste Hazardous waste

0.033

0.039

0.037

BREAKDOWNOF HAZARDOUSWASTE TREATMENT –%OF TOTAL EXPRESSED IN TONS – BIC GROUP

0.197

0.181

0.174

12% 8%

2020

2018

2019

21%

29%

5%

Non-hazardous industrial waste The results achieved by the BIC Group in 2020 regarding the production and management of non-hazardous waste are as follows: a 9% increase in the quantity of non-hazardous industrial ● waste per ton of production; in the main offices, waste production reached 80 tons, a ● decrease of 55% in comparison with 2019 in particular due to the employees’ absence.

25%

5%

21%

26%

32%

39%

27%

21%

16%

13%

2020

2018

2019

Recycled Incinerated with energy recovery Incinerated without energy recovery (1) Sent to land disposal Sent to other form of treatment disposal

BREAKDOWNOF NON-HAZARDOUSWASTE –%OF TOTAL EXPRESSED IN TONS – BIC GROUP (1)

4% 8% 2% 14%

1% 10 % 2% 13%

2% 9% 2% 12%

73%

74%

74%

2020

2018

2019

Recycled Incinerated with energy recovery Incinerated without energy recovery (1) Sent to land disposal Sent to other form of treatment disposal

The "Incinerated without energy recovery" category was created in 2018. In 2017, these waste were categorized under "Other form of treatment (1) disposal".

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