Introduction | Becoming People & Planet Positive | Stakeholder engagement | Sustainability governance | SDG index Healthy & sustainable living - Our circularity agenda - Our climate agenda - Regenerating resources - Fair & equal - IWAY Aiming to only use renewable or recycled materials by adapting Developing circular solutions for existing and new customers and 昀椀nding new sources and developing new materials to acquire, care for, and pass on products Renewable and recyclable materials are key Examples of increasing the share of We want to encourage and enable our Giving old or unwanted furniture to becoming a circular business. We continue recycled plastic customers to acquire, care for, and pass on a second life our work to optimise the use of materials for HÅLLBAR their products in circular ways by providing Through Buyback & Resell, customers our home furnishing solutions, aiming to use convenient solutions. in 28 markets can bring back IKEA only responsibly sourced renewable or recycled The HÅLLBAR collection, consisting of a series furniture to one of our stores and receive materials. Read more about our secondary raw of sorting bins designed to meet waste sorting a voucher to spend in-store or online. A materials (recycled) on page 42. needs, was launched in 2020. Products in majority of returned items are resold via the HÅLLBAR collection are going through a our As-Is areas. Any items not resold are The amount of materials used in the IKEA range is transition to being made from recycled sources. recycled or donated to local community based on estimations for most types of materials. To date, IKEA plastic products produced in projects. Over 211,600 customers used Accurate yearly 昀椀gures for di昀昀erent amounts of Europe contain at least 70% recycled content, the service in FY23 (FY22: 105,000) and materials continue to only be available for wood where more than half of it comes from post- gave 430,000 (FY22: 230,000) items a and paper. Therefore, there are no updates to the consumer sources such as household plastic second life. 昀椀gures shared in FY21, where we reported that waste. The same journey is ongoing in the Despite our Buyback service, we know 56% of the materials we sourced were renewable other production regions, resulting in lowering and 17% were recycled. Read more about recycled the CO2 on a material level by approximately that many people still dispose of furniture materials on page 42. 60% compared to if entirely made from fossil that is in good condition and could be virgin plastic. Increasing the availability of spare parts reused. In Norway, we are trialing a new to prolong the life of products partnership with the municipality of Oslo UPPDATERA During FY23, we provided 23.2 million to create a dedicated collection point for 1 unwanted IKEA furniture at the Haraldrud assembly parts (FY22: 21.5 million) to Moving from recycled polythylene enable our customers to prolong the life municipal recycling centre. Returned IKEA terephthalate (PET) to recycled polypropylene of products. We also continued working on furniture will be checked, cleaned and (PP) in our UPPDATERA products (consisting of solutions to provide furniture spare parts2 resold in our As-Is areas. We hope this multi-use plastic boxes) lowered CO2 emissions will improve convenience for customers for customers. Our aim is to o昀昀er easy, on a material level by approximately 12%. The and increase the amount of good quality convenient and a昀昀ordable solutions for our lower emissions of PP are mainly driven by the customers. IKEA furniture that we can resell. lower energy consumption of recycling plastic than for PET. Additionally, this change provided better a昀昀ordability for customers. UPPDATERA plastic boxes, now made from recycled 1 Assembly parts are small 昀椀ttings, such as nuts, bolts and screws, that hold together the main component parts of a piece of furniture. They are identi昀椀able in polypropylene (PP), have a lower climate footprint than before Read more about the climate footprint of assembly instructions of products with a series number. Assembly parts can be ordered and delivered for free through an online tool on the IKEA website. 2 Furniture spare parts are replaceable parts of furniture which are not assembly parts, for instance, back and seat cushions, upholstered covers, armrests while being more a昀昀ordable. materials in the IKEA Climate Report FY23. door fronts, drawer parts, panels, bed slats, shelves, tabletops and legs, handles, etc. 19 - IKEA SUSTAINABILITY REPORT FY23