Goal: reduce waste

Worthless waste or valuable secondary raw materials? “Waste” is a key environmental problem. For one thing, limited resources are wasted. For another, some wastes are a serious threat to wildlife, for example, such as plastic bags or synthetic micro particles that end up in the oceans. Last but not least, dangerous substances can be released into the environment when improperly disposed of.

Waste management has a high degree of environmental relevance at our headquarters in Tettnang-Obereisenbach. All waste is collected by a local waste management company and properly disposed of, or it is brought to a collection station with documented proof by VAUDE employees.

Residual waste is our "problem child". At VAUDE, it consists primarily of production scraps that thus far cannot be recycled.

VAUDE has had a waste potential analysis carried out by experts in order to significantly reduce waste and to ensure the most environmentally friendly form of waste disposal as possible. The results of this are now being systematically implemented. 

 
Our goal is by 2015 to have reduced waste accumulation in kg per employee by 10% as compared to 2010.