4 _215 2023 UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT_MICHELIN 4 NON-FINANCIAL STATEMENT Sustainable Development Report Reduce the amount of waste. Examples of levers include: ● improving process management (higher compliance rates); ● developing technological upgrades (less materials wastage); ● applying good manufacturing practices and raising employee awareness. Reduce the amount of waste by instilling a reuse culture. Examples of levers include: ● fixing what can be fixed; ● reusing industrial equipment among plants; ● reusing non-compliant materials across the Group by creating synergies among the business lines or with acquisitions. When waste cannot be avoided, prefer materials recovery and reuse solutions to recovering energy through incineration. In this way, waste can be reused to manufacture new products. Examples include recycling unvulcanized rubber waste to make gaskets, wheels and a variety of other non-tire rubber products, regenerating solvents and reusing process sludge to make outdoor flooring tiles. In addition to reducing waste, the Group is committed to recovering and reusing all the waste it does produce. As a result, its Waste Management Policy prohibits landfilling, unless it can be shown that there is no technically and environmentally viable treatment option for the waste in question. However, this is only to be used as a stopgap while waiting for a recovery and reuse solution. 2023 Outcomes In 2023, the Group’s waste expert network, which was restructured by geography (Asia, Europe and the United States) in 2022, and the updated guidelines helped to impel a stronger 4R dynamic in every production plant. In addition, the decline in production volumes had a positive impact on the Group's waste production in 2023, as did the heightened awareness of plant employees, lifted by local work sessions focused on identifying waste sources and corrective actions. In all, the waste performance ratio improved by 5.7% year-onyear and the amount of waste produced declined by 8% over the period, to 273 kt. During the year, 95.2% of this waste was recovered and reused as fuel or as new materials, which represented a slight decline from the 2022 rate [SASB TR-AP-150a.1]. By focusing on materials recovery instead of other waste treatment channels, 72.7% of all waste was recovered as reusable materials in 2023, and this figure continues to grow. Lastly, 9.5% of total waste generated in 2023 was classified as hazardous under each country’s legislation. [SASB TR-AP-150a.1]. In 2023, a study was conducted at seven pilot facilities to select a digital solution capable of improving the collection and traceability of all the Group’s waste data. Scheduled for widespread deployment in 2024, the new solution will enable the Group to strengthen its roadmap by: ● Automatically centralizing the collection and traceability of waste management data, in particular to maintain compliance with forthcoming EU legislation (e.g., the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, applicable from 2025); ● Facilitating the work of on-site waste coordinators by optimizing their administrative tasks; ● Precisely identifying process waste flows in order to implement new waste reduction projects, followed by new waste recovery and reuse solutions. WASTE PERFORMANCE (Ratio in kilograms of waste per tonne of finished and semi-finished product) ReDUcE Reuse RECYCLE 2019 36.1 33.3 33.1 31.2 2021 2022 2023
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