Climate protection initiatives

The railway is particularly well-suited for waste types such as excavated materials, construction and demolition waste, household waste, and ash and slag. Since 2023, waste transportation in Austria with a total weight of more than ten tonnes and a transport distance of 300 km are required to be transported by rail or via other means of transport with equivalent or lower pollutant or greenhouse gas potential. Then from 2024, 200 km, and from 2026 waste transport in Austria from a distance of 100 km should take place by rail. We rely on suitable equipment such as MOBILER container bodies and intermodal carrying wagons, 20-foot containers and other conventional wagon types in order to enable the transfer of waste transport to rail . Waste Management have been saved to date by our waste transport by rail. tonnes of CO 2 per year 146.000 are needed thanks to rail transport. This means an immediate reduction in CO 2 and road noise. * Own calculations based on 2021 RCA waste transport data and assuming a truck loading weight of 24 tonnes. less truck journeys* per year 300.000 transported every year – that’s around 11 % of all waste in Austria. million tonnes of waste 8 March 2025 WE ARE RAILCORE