Regenerate living ecosystems through our business activities
Our fourth CSR focus area addresses living ecosystems.
This complex topic, which is still rarely addressed by companies, touches on the respect for biodiversity and regeneration—meaning our ability to restore nature and, by extension, living ecosystems. Here, the goal is no longer just to reduce our negative environmental impacts, but to guarantee a positive effect on our environment through our business activities.
Decontamination
One of our core activities involves decontaminating soil and water so that life can reclaim its place. This is deployed across two main areas:
– Site decontamination: brownfield remediation, removal of concentrated pollution, plume treatment, and ecological emergency management. Our expertise provides clients with tailored solutions to address their environmental liabilities and regenerate their sites.
– Effluent treatment: we offer a range of remediation tools tailored to each situation for treating effluents.
The continuous pursuit of innovation and a strong CSR approach are at the heart of our business activities and developments.
Land refertilization
Agricultural land is under threat everywhere. In France, every second, 25 m2 of natural land disappears—the equivalent of a football pitch every 5 minutes and an entire department every 7 years.
To address the environmental emergency, SERFIM deploys treatment platforms and pollution remediation tools to give a new lease of life to tons of excavated soil.
Species preservation
All of our business activities are in constant contact with living ecosystems.
The sites where we operate are themselves spaces where we can take direct action: unsealing surfaces, re-vegetating, and choosing species that are not only suited to the effects of climate change but also provide benefits (hosting biodiversity, cooling urban heat islands, etc.).
Within the scope of our expertise, during our numerous projects—whether or not they involve the installation or rehabilitation of infrastructure—we have the opportunity to choose to preserve animal and plant species, and to design our developments to facilitate the coexistence of this biodiversity with human activities.
The SERFIM commitment
This new focus area in our CSR strategy is particularly close to our hearts. Here, we strive not
only to reduce our negative externalities or those of our clients, but we are committed to
developing a positive contribution from an environmental and societal perspective. We reaffirm the connection
between our activities and living ecosystems, of which we are all a part: biodiversity of course, animal species,
but also the women and men, all coexisting in the same ecosystem—that of our
planet—and all interdependent.
Our ambition: for each of our business activities to contribute in its own way to the regeneration of living ecosystems.
