Dentsply Sirona Strives for a Healthy Planet
We have always taken our role as an environmental steward seriously because a healthy planet is fundamental to our future. As a global leader in manufacturing dental products and technologies, we continuously seek to identify solutions to minimise the environmental impact of our operations and conserve resources.
For Dentsply Sirona, a healthy planet is one where greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are reduced, resources and water consumption are managed sustainably, waste is minimised, and pollution is mitigated at every opportunity.
We remain committed to creating sustainable working environments by ensuring our facilities and offices are energy efficient and implementing robust recycling and waste management practices. In terms of sustainable packaging, we continued to optimise the materials we use for product packaging, with the aim to minimise waste and help develop a circular supply chain.
We strive to embed sustainable practices beyond our own operations and encourage collaboration, which is why we became a founding member of the FDI World Dental Federation’s landmark Sustainability in Dentistry initiative in 2021. In 2023, we collaborated with the FDI World Dental Federation to develop the Sustainability in Dentistry Massive Open Online Course (“MOOC”). This is a dedicated course created to help dentists, dental teams, and students understand the impact of oral healthcare on the environment and utilise evidence-based dentistry to improve their patients’ oral health in an environmentally conscious way.
Dentsply Sirona’s Strategic Environmental Priorities
We set out four ambitious Healthy Planet strategic priorities and targets. We are pleased that we are on track to meet our Scope 1 and 2 emission intensity and water withdrawal intensity reduction goals, and we are encouraged by the solid progress we are making against our goals. We are in the process of finalising our sustainability executional roadmap and conducting a global energy, waste, and water use audit. This audit will inform new targets that look beyond 2025, and we will be able to share these soon.
2021 is the second year we are reporting in alignment with the TCFD recommendations and the SASB standards. This is in line with our commitment to incorporate climate-related issues into our strategic and financial planning processes, and to report the positive progress transparently and consistently we make each year.
In 2021 we completed our first CDP questionnaire and received an overall “C” score, which is in line with the average performance for both Medical Equipment and Supplies sector and North America overall.
As we progress our sustainability strategy, announced in September 2020, we will continue to engage with the CDP and demonstrate the critical actions we are taking to combat climate change and strive to become a leader in our industry. Our long-term targets are being established as part of the sustainability executional roadmap we are developing, and we look forward to sharing this publicly to further demonstrate our climate strategy in action.
Exploring Our Other Sustainability Pillars
