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Striving for sustainabilty in dentistry
We have always taken our role as an environmental steward seriously because a healthy planet is fundamental to our future. As a global leader in manufacturing dental products and technologies, we continuously seek to identify solutions to minimize the environmental impact of our operations and conserve resources.
We believe that a healthy planet is one where resources are used sustainably, waste is minimized, and pollution is mitigated at every opportunity.
We remain committed to creating sustainable working environments by striving to make our facilities and offices energy efficient and by implementing robust recycling and waste management practices. In terms of sustainable packaging, we continued to optimize the materials we use for product packaging, with the aim to minimize waste and help develop a circular supply chain.
We strive to embed sustainable practices beyond our own operations and encourage collaboration, which is why we became a founding member of the FDI World Dental Federation’s landmark Sustainability in Dentistry initiative in 2021.
Our Healthy Planet sustainability actions are aligned with the following UN SDGs: "3: Good health and well-being", "9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure", "12: Responsible consumption and production", "13: Climate action", and "17: Parternships for the goals".
Our environmental targets
- Working to achieve net zero carbon emissions (scopes 1-3) by 2050.
- Reducing our combined Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions intensity by ≥ 15% by 2025 (from a 2019 baseline).
- Reducing total waste reduction by ≥ 15% by 2025 (from a 2021 baseline).
- Reducing our water withdrawal intensity for manufacturing/warehouse operations b y ≥ 15% by 2025 (from a 2019 baseline).
- Striving to make our product packaging recyclable by 2030.
We are proud to share that we have continued to improve our environmental data gathering for emissions, water and waste. As part of this we have also aligned our footprint with the outcomes of our Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) completed in 2024.
We remain on-track to overachieve our 2025 target to reduce our combined Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions intensity by ≥15%, with a total reduction of 42% versus our 2019 baseline year. This has already put us in a good position as we work to achieve our long-term goal of Net Zero Scope 1-3 carbon emissions by 2050. We have also continued to outperform our 2025 target of a ≥15% reduction in water withdrawal intensity, with a total decrease of 21% since 2019. On an absolute value basis, Scope 1-2 GHG emissions have decreased by an extraordinary 45% and water withdrawal has decreased by 26%. Furthermore, our total waste generation has decreased by 16% since 2021, which was the year we expanded our scope of reporting to include a significantly wider range of waste streams.
We are in the process of using these data insights as well as the DMA outcomes to inform our 2030 targets. The advancements we have made to our data gathering have provided us with a strong practical foundation for Scope 3 GHG emissions reporting and we look forward to reporting this data in our 2025 sustainability report, following verification. The work completed in 2024 has also allowed us to start developing a Net Zero plan which will function as a roadmap to our 2050 goal. Furthermore, we continued our Bill of Materials work, which will help us deepen our understanding of our GHG emissions by product line and geographic source. In 2024, substantial work was also undertaken to understand climate risk and we are working to operationalize a new risk model that will allow us to consider climate risks when making manufacturing and supplier decisions, with the added benefit of providing additional supply chain reliability.
Our Sustainable Packaging Team has established a Company-wide goal to strive to make all Dentsply Sirona packaging recyclable by 2030. To achieve this goal, sustainable packaging design guidelines for primary, secondary, tertiary, and logistics packaging have been put in place, supported by a roadmap that sets key targets and milestones for 2025-2027.
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