Corporate responsibility
Not just a goal, but an intrinsic and distinctive commitment in every aspect of our daily operations.
Gesteco embraces sustainability as a fundamental pillar of its mission and corporate purpose.
The sustainable approach is the common thread that guides our strategic decisions, the design of our operations, and our interactions with all stakeholders. We are aware of the crucial importance of mitigating the environmental impact of our activities and strive to implement solutions that promote environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
In the development of our business, we invest in innovative technologies and processes to reduce our environmental footprint, adopt responsible resource management practices, and actively collaborate with local communities to promote sustainable initiatives.
We are actively dedicated to raising awareness and inspiring others to follow our path towards a more environmentally conscious and respectful corporate management, as the major (climate, global, and economic) changes we are witnessing require companies to renew themselves deeply. Gesteco wants to have a decisive role as an agent of change and for this reason, in 2020, it created Beeability®.
Beeability®
As suggested by its name, which is formed by the combination of several words of English origin, with this project we wanted to create a group of people who take the industriousness of the bee as a model, putting their abilities at the service of companies, to enable them to adapt their environmental impacts to make them more sustainable.
The Beeability project is managed by an internal team with cross-functional expertise, whose task is to outline a company's path towards energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. The approach used is scientific and innovative. The Beeability team plays a central role in the organization, fostering close collaboration across all areas of the company, as well as between the company and the external environment.
Beeability's services are not confined to the value chain of the Gruppo Luci companies, but extend along the various supply chains through proactive stakeholder engagement.
2024
Gruppo Luci Sustainability Report
2023
Sustainability for Gesteco is not a goal already achieved, but a continuously evolving journey. Every day, we work to make our impact more positive by implementing concrete actions and innovative solutions.
We began our reporting journey in 2023, publishing our first Sustainability Report on the results of 2022. In 2024, with the second Report covering the entire Gruppo Luci, we continued our commitment with the aim of narrating this journey: a voyage of progressive improvements, responsible choices, and a constant effort to find the right balance between growth, innovation, and respect for the environment and people.
Looking to the future with concreteness and responsibility
We know there is still a long way to go, but we believe that every step forward is important. Our Sustainability Report is a tool to narrate this path, with the awareness that sustainability does not come improvisationally: it is built with dedication, method, and responsible choices.
Taking sustainability seriously means recognizing that there are no immediate or perfect solutions, but that change is built over time with measurable actions and long-term oriented strategies.
- We continuously monitor and measure our impact to identify new opportunities for improvement.
- We follow recognized standards to ensure transparency and comparability over time.
- We actively involve customers, suppliers, and communities because sustainability is a collective journey.
- We face challenges with pragmatism, focusing on applicable and truly effective solutions.
Our areas of intervention:
1. Responsible resource management and impact reduction: we optimize processes to reduce waste and improve material recovery, transforming waste into new resources.
2. People and territory at the center: we believe that sustainability also involves the well-being of people: for this reason, we invest in training, safety, and projects that generate value for the community.
3. Innovation and sustainable governance: we commit to integrating sustainability into every aspect of business management, adopting digital tools and community-oriented strategies.
2023
Sustainability Report 2022
In order to develop a culture of sustainability, it is necessary to define a pragmatic path, built on the basis of facts and impact measurement, in continuous interaction with stakeholders. Convinced that this is the key to our journey, we have drafted our first Sustainability Report.
This document reflects the effort made to accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable economy, aware of our responsibility in reporting and communicating our path.
The regulatory landscape is continuously evolving, and the policies and strategies of the European Union urge us to innovate and transform challenges into opportunities for business development, to the benefit of the environment, the territory, and the communities.
We believe that transparency in communicating our progress and goals related to sustainability is essential to engage stakeholders, inspire trust, and demonstrate our real commitment over time to more sustainable practices.
2022
Circular Economy Report - Enel X
The editorial staff of the Circular Economy Report, in close collaboration with Enel X, has allowed us to obtain a snapshot of the state-of-the-art of Gesteco's sites and plants and consequently develop targeted solutions tailored to our company's reality.
Indeed, the Circular Economy Report has conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis capable of evaluating the level of circularity of the company based on multiple factors, from energy and procurement policies to waste management, providing a wide range of information useful for improvement.
On the corporate strategy front, the analysis acknowledged that Gesteco, focused on the waste sector, has always aimed to reduce the quantity of resources used and waste generated, integrating the activity of its internal divisions in a perspective extremely close to that of the circular economy.
In our plants located in the region, we have managed to implement a self-sustaining system: there is a flow of materials (waste and secondary raw materials) that evolves cyclically from one plant to another, finding useful employment and contributing to the creation of value, minimizing waste and inefficiencies.
2021
Gruppo Luci for Agenda 2030
During 2021, Gesteco took a significant step towards transparency and commitment to ESG issues (Environmental, Social, and Governance). We have indeed drawn up our first detailed document demonstrating our concrete commitment to pursuing the Agenda 2030 goals.
We started with a thorough analysis of the seven fundamental themes of ISO 26000, in order to make them our own and to adapt them to the core business of the entire Luci Group. Based on these themes, six areas of action were identified:
1. People in the company (including Human Resources and Good Business Practices)
2. Community and territory
3. Environment
4. Supply chain
5. Customer Management
6. Governance
For each identified area, the main sustainable business activities were mapped, assessing their importance for the realization of Agenda 2030, distinguishing primary from secondary impacts.
The purpose of this work was to measure Gesteco's and Luci Group's contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, identifying areas for improvement in order to plan, in the medium to long term, actions to enhance the organization's sustainable path.