S.E.S.A.: from waste to energy, thirty years of supply chain
Company profile, sustainability reports, trade fairs and thirty years of history for a company that turns the waste of fifty-three municipalities into energy, biomethane and fertilisers.
In short
S.E.S.A. S.p.A. — Società Estense Servizi Ambientali is a public-private company based in Este (Padua, Italy), founded in 1995 on the initiative of the municipality of Este, which recovers urban waste and produces energy, biomethane, carbon dioxide and fertilisers. Since 2024 Opificio Lamantini Anonimi has handled its communication: collection calendars, school programme, sustainability reports, company profile, trade fairs and events.
Project facts
- Client
- S.E.S.A. S.p.A. — Società Estense Servizi Ambientali
- Sector
- Waste management, renewable energy, circular economy
- Location
- Este (Padua, Italy)
- Period
- 2024 – ongoing
- Services
- Brand analysis, publishing, project identity, campaigns, trade fair stands, events
- Website
- sesaeste.it
“People see the logo and think: a bill to pay.” But there is much more to it. S.E.S.A. collects the waste of dozens of municipalities south of Padua and turns it into energy, biomethane, carbon dioxide and fertiliser. That is where we started: not with a campaign, but with the places where S.E.S.A. already was.
The starting point
Where was S.E.S.A. starting from?
A solid, technical company, with major plants and three very different audiences: local citizens, large municipal utilities, businesses. And communication built from successive patch-ups, with no overall design.
Through waste, S.E.S.A. provides a service for a cleaner environment. Citizens, though, see it only as a waste collector.From our presentation to S.E.S.A., 2024
How do you speak to fifty-three municipalities with one message?
The collection calendar is the only thing we make that ends up on a kitchen wall for twelve months. It is not a leaflet: it is a tool.
Fifty-three waste calendars for 2025, one per municipality: same structure, same illustrated cover, different schedules and rules in each town. Inside, the letter to the community, the correct behaviour bin by bin and the useful numbers. Alongside, service leaflets, social posts for bag distribution and press pages.
Fifty-three covers, one voice
2025 waste calendars
The newspaper pages
Christmas and roadside campaigns
Services and social
Leaflets and posts for the area
How do you explain the circular economy to a five-year-old and to an eighteen-year-old?
Four ages, four booklets. The same content told in four different ways.
S.E.S.A. Academy is the environmental education project the company runs in local schools. In September 2024 we designed its logo, across three releases.
Then the school programme for the 2025/2026 academic year: four editions, one per level, with a sheet for every workshop, the timings and how to sign up. And the 2025 diary, telling the journey of a bottle as a comic.
Four levels, four booklets
School programme 2025/2026
The journey of a bottle
2025 diary · posters · events
How do you make a sustainability report readable?
A sustainability report is a required document. Our job is to make it something somebody actually opens.
Two editions laid out: tables, charts, plants, quantities. Then the posters and the invitations to the meetings where the report is presented to administrators and staff. Because a report that stays inside a PDF has not done its job.
Inside the report
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How do you tell the story of a company that makes energy from waste, in thirty seconds?
Nobody reads at a trade fair. One line is enough: where waste becomes new products and new energy.
The 2025 company profile: forty pages in Italian and English, ten releases before print. It covers the whole chain — separate collection, optical-pneumatic sorting, anaerobic digestion, Terra Euganea compost, district heating, biomethane, food-grade CO₂, solar power, the laboratory, the greenhouses.
Then the six-by-three-metre stand backdrop for the Naples trade fair.
Forty pages, in Italian and English, from collection to biomethane.
The backdrop, six metres by three
Naples trade fair
How do you celebrate an anniversary without the rhetoric?
Thirty years are not celebrated with a big number. They are celebrated by inviting the people who made them.
A celebratory logo in which the zero is the company’s own symbol. A poster with a line-drawn hot-air balloon. An invitation, a certificate, a map of the site and cards with seeds to plant: what people are left holding after the party.
Frequently asked questions
S.E.S.A. and Opificio, in short.
What does Opificio Lamantini Anonimi do for S.E.S.A.?
It handles the company’s communication: waste collection calendars, the school programme, sustainability reports, the company profile, press campaigns, trade fair stands and events.
Who is S.E.S.A. S.p.A.?
Società Estense Servizi Ambientali, a public-private company in Este (Padua, Italy), founded in 1995 on the initiative of the municipality of Este, which recovers urban waste and produces electricity and heat, biomethane, carbon dioxide and fertilisers.
Who made the S.E.S.A. waste calendars?
Opificio Lamantini Anonimi, which produced 53 of them for 2025, one for each municipality served.
What is S.E.S.A. Academy?
S.E.S.A.’s environmental education project for local schools. Opificio Lamantini Anonimi designed its logo and lays out its school programme.
Does Opificio Lamantini Anonimi work with public companies?
Yes. S.E.S.A. S.p.A. is a public-private company and is an example of a long-running collaboration.