Seven Super Robots - each over four meters tall and built using production scraps from Lamborghini’s super sports cars - symbolize the collaboration between the Sant’Agata Bolognese-based automaker and the Hera Group, aimed at achieving a global, integrated, and sustainable management of industrial waste.
Displayed at Ecomondo 2025 across the Hera Group and its subsidiaries’ stands (Hall C1 – Stands 500 and 501) and at the South entrance of the fair, the “Super Robots, protectors of the environment” were created by the multi-utility through its SCART project, which for nearly thirty years has transformed waste into works of art. These sculptures represent the symbolic language chosen to present a shared vision built on advanced global waste management services.
Focus on innovative recovery projects to turn waste into value
The agreement entrusts Herambiente (a Hera Group company and Italy’s leading environmental operator in terms of facilities and volumes handled) with managing, through 2028, the entire cycle of special waste from Lamborghini’s Sant’Agata Bolognese plant—about 3,500 tons per year, with a material recovery rate that reached 80% in 2024 and can be further increased.
Renewed for 2025–2028 after an initial award in 2022, the contract aims to minimize disposal and maximize recovery through efficiency-based criteria, ensuring full traceability and safety.
A particularly important aspect of the global waste management agreement involves compliance oversight, managed end-to-end by Herambiente (including the new RENTRI – National Electronic Waste Tracking Register). The agreement also covers classification and safe disposal of obsolete waste, certified destruction of prototypes and components, demolition of decommissioned assets, and the reuse of pallets for lithium battery crates.
Optimizing loads and transport will deliver both economic benefits and reduced atmospheric emissions.
Circularity and Net Zero: the commitment of Automobili Lamborghini and Gruppo Hera
The collaboration with Herambiente is part of Automobili Lamborghini’s structured ESG strategy, which already led the Sant’Agata Bolognese site to achieve carbon neutrality certification in 2015, maintained over the years despite the doubling of production space. This milestone reflects an integrated approach combining direct emission reduction, offsetting projects, and investments in energy efficiency.
The agreement with the Hera Group strengthens this commitment: it ensures specialized waste management aimed at maximizing resource recovery while also reducing indirect emissions linked to logistics and treatment processes.
In 2024, Lamborghini increased the share of waste sent for recovery by 15%, surpassing 80% of total waste volumes. Hera Group is a fully aligned partner, targeting Net Zero by 2050, with a 90% reduction in climate-altering emissions compared to 2019 levels.
The joint initiatives - comprehensive waste management, resource regeneration, and the SCART art project - embody a shared vision where the circular economy acts as a technical, environmental, and cultural driver.
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05 November 2025
