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Our business is closely involved in people lives.

We ensure residents receive essential services for their daily life.

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Managing your water services. Distributing energy. Selling electricity and gas. Recycling waste. Our one objective: to create value for the people and the community in which we operate.

Nowadays, innovation is at everyone's fingertips.

Acea sees innovation as the driving force to become more efficient, to raise the quality of life for our customers, to improve services for the residents and the community. Acea has used all this to create a new culture of innovation: an open culture, which everyone can share and take part in.

Our Group serves local communities and their citizens.

We are fully aware of our role of responsibility towards our stakeholders for our major economic, social and environmental impact. This is why our Sustainability Plan is part and parcel of our Business Plan.

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The future is circular

Circular economy: definition

“An economy designed to regenerate itself”. According to Ellen MacArthur, founder of the foundation that takes her name, circular economy is a system in which all activities, starting from production, are planned so that even waste becomes a resource.

A new economic and sustainable model

Circular economy goes beyond the concept of linear economy. If the latter is based on linear processes (take-make-waste), circular economy is conceived as an economic and productive circular model, based on three general principles:

planning products in advance to avoid waste and pollution from the start
prolonging the lifespan of products and materials considering reuse and recycle, so that they can continue to be used for other purposes
regenerating natural systems, to give back to the soil the nutrients that contribute to preserving the balance of ecosystems

In the EU, on average, every year:

each person uses 15 tons of materials
each person generates 4.5 tons of waste

Source: www.mite.gov.it

An opportunity that must be taken

Circular economy requires a coordinated effort. Sustainability is one of the priorities on the EU’s agenda: the European Commission has presented the European Green Deal, that aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Michaela Castelli, Chairperson of Acea, together with other 110 business representatives, signed the manifesto of the ambitious Green Deal for Italy project for an advanced, carbon-free, and circular economy.

The central role played by multiutilities

Multiutilities play an important part as catalysis in the transition process towards a green economy, because they serve the local communities in areas such as the water, energy, and environment sectors.

Acea has long been committed to circular economy: a key part of the sustainability strategy, which in turn is part of the industrial strategy. The new Business Plan for 2020-2024 has set aside 2 billion euros to achieve specific sustainability targets, a 400-million increase compared to the previous plan.
Initiatives include managing water resources, contributing to the development of electric mobility, and contrasting the effects of climate change.
Acea is also focused on strengthening waste-to-material chains (for example for plastic and paper) and waste transition chains, with projects such as Acea Smart Comp, an innovative, 0 kilometers composting system to manage organic waste.