Some ideas look slightly mad when you first suggest them.
Back in 1998, SUNA 2000 started working on one of them: taking plant waste and turning it into compost.
Nearly 30 years later, the idea doesn’t look quite so strange.
In fact, turning waste into something useful has become a big part of how we need to think about the environment, agriculture and waste management.
SUNA 2000 has been doing it for years.
A new chapter for SUNA 2000
The company is now entering a new phase, while keeping the same basic idea at its heart.
Waste doesn’t necessarily have to be waste.
Following a serious incident at its facilities on 11 January 2024, SUNA 2000 has been forced to rethink and rebuild parts of its operation.
The result is a more modern approach that brings together waste management, transport, construction and public services, all with the wider goal of creating a more circular economy.
The principle is fairly simple.
Collect it. Manage it. Transform it. And, where possible, put it back to good use.
From waste back to the land
A new facility in Arona is part of that next stage.
It’s designed around more modern production methods and the need to operate efficiently at an industrial scale.
Because sustainability sounds great until you actually have to process large quantities of material.
Then you need systems, equipment, organisation and people who know what they’re doing.
SUNA 2000’s approach is based on improving those processes without compromising the quality of the end product.
Supporting Tenerife’s farmers
Agriculture remains an important part of the company’s work.
SUNA 2000 supplies resources to both larger agricultural producers and smaller farmers, with the aim of helping them maintain access to what they need.
The wider objective is to improve agricultural productivity using natural resources, regenerate soils and encourage more sustainable farming methods.
It’s a fairly practical approach to sustainability.
Rather than simply talking about reducing waste, the company is looking at what can actually be done with it.
Closing the loop
The idea behind SUNA 2000 can be summed up in a few words: collect, manage, value, transform and regenerate.
It’s about keeping materials in use for as long as possible and ultimately returning them to the land.
That circular approach wasn’t exactly mainstream nearly three decades ago.
Today, it’s becoming increasingly important.
And perhaps that’s the interesting thing about SUNA 2000. An idea that once seemed a little ahead of its time is now looking increasingly like part of the future.