Incineration in the Circular Economy

heading textHow does ESG reporting influence how a company is financed, run, and perceived?

in this episode, Fabian Böhmer, Head of Sustainability at EEW, joins Patrick to discuss how ESG reporting can serve bankability, reputation, and internal decision-making.

What you'll hear: • Why the business case matters in sustainability, and what happens when ecological, social, and economic dimensions are treated as one balanced system rather than competing priorities • What CSRD, ESRS, and the EU taxonomy actually require, and the difference between treating them as a reporting burden and using them as a strategic tool • How to make sustainability work land internally with different functions: the language that gets operations, finance, and the board on board

The episode also covers how green bonds and ESG-linked credit conditions are reshaping the cost of capital, and why focus matters more than completeness when reporting to multiple stakeholders.

This is the fifth episode of the series Incineration in the Circular Economy, sponsored by NEEW Ventures.

People Fabian Böhmer, Head of Sustainability at EEW https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-b%C3%B6hmer/

Patrick Hypscher, Circular Business Strategist, PaaS Expert https://www.linkedin.com/in/hypscher/

Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:26 A sustainability report for your private life? 04:44 The triangle of sustainability 10:23 Landfilling vs waste-to-energy 14:29 Why landfilling still wins on cost 19:21 What happens to the residues 23:09 The waste hierarchy 25:09 Bringing the three dimensions together 31:22 The sustainability report under new regulation 38:16 Communicating with all stakeholders 43:38 The financial value of a good report 48:54 Hacks for bringing colleagues onboard 52:48 Closing

About EEW Energy from Waste GmbH (EEW) is one of Europe’s leading companies in the field of thermal waste and sewage sludge recovery. Today, EEW makes an important contribution to climate and resource protection and is therefore an essential part of the circular economy. At the company’s 17 current sites, around 5 million tonnes of waste per year can be used for energy recovery.

More than 1,400 employees take responsibility for using the energy in waste, reducing waste volumes, safely and harmlessly eliminating hazards from waste, and recycling scrap metal and composite materials. In addition, the energy contained in waste is used efficiently to generate process steam for industrial plants, district heating for residential areas and electricity produced in an environmentally friendly way.

Further Links https://www.neew-ventures.com/

https://www.eew-energyfromwaste.com/

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