When Sustainability Meets the Numbers: Myrtha Pools’ 2025 ESG Report
Myrtha Pools’ fourth Sustainability Report examines the company’s progress, looking beyond its commitments to document measurable results, certified methodologies, and the practical use of circular principles in its products and projects.
Paris 2024 offers one of the most tangible examples. Myrtha Pools committed to reusing 80% of the materials used to build the temporary competition and warm-up pools for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. According to the 2025 report, the company has fulfilled that commitment. Reinstallation of the Olympic pool began in 2025 at Aquarena in Sevran, a public aquatic center outside Paris, giving the temporary pool a second life as a community facility. A similar model has been put into practice in Brazil. Nearly a decade after Rio 2016, Myrtha completed the legacy project with the latest reinstallation of the Olympic Stadium pool at Parque Oeste Ana Gonzaga, west of Rio de Janeiro.
As Myrtha Pools CEO Roberto Colletto writes in his letter to stakeholders: “As in Paris, the social value of these projects goes hand in hand with the environmental benefits generated by repurposing Olympic and Paralympic facilities as public aquatic centres designed to more broadly serve local communities.”
The report also traces how circularity is shaping product development. Myrtha R-Evolution was first tested at Paris 2024 with a membrane containing 50% recycled material. Since 2025, it has been manufactured with 60% recycled PVC content. The membrane is thicker, fully recyclable at the end of its useful life, and backed by a 15-year warranty. R-Evolution has also become the standard for all Myrtha pools rather than an optional upgrade. It has already been installed at the Aquamore Ghedi aquatic center in Italy and at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
“The company has decided to introduce it as the new standard across all Myrtha pools,” explains Colletto. “This decision reflects our commitment to integrate increasingly sustainable solutions, even where this may represent a commercial disadvantage in markets that are not yet mature from this perspective.”
Beyond product innovation, the report emphasizes the value of reliable environmental data for architects, consultants, and contractors. Myrtha’s solutions have been mapped against LEED v4, BREEAM, and Green Star requirements, helping professionals identify and obtain credits under leading green building certification systems.
In 2025, Myrtha’s work in this area expanded to industry-wide methodologies. The company served as a promoter and technical expert in developing two newly published Product Category Rules for swimming pool tanks, EPDItaly049 and EPDItaly055. These rules establish a framework for creating more rigorous and comparable Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), supporting a more consistent approach to Life Cycle Assessment and environmental performance data in the swimming pool industry.
The report identifies 21 projects currently certified under LEED, BREEAM, HQE, Passivhaus, or SITES Gold across Saudi Arabia, the UK, the US, Sri Lanka, Spain, France, Italy, and Norway. They include hospitality projects such as The Lake Como EDITION (Marriott) and Village Verde in Spain, as well as the campuses of Bocconi University and Colby College, both LEED Platinum certified. These projects illustrate how certified environmental information can be incorporated into building projects and sustainability certification processes.
This focus on the full life cycle of a pool is also reflected in two solutions. Myrtha RenovAction makes it possible to renovate aging concrete pools without complete demolition, helping avoid the additional COâ‚‚ emissions associated with replacing the existing structure.
Myrtha’s modular technology offers another route: a temporary pool can be installed for a major competition or while an existing aquatic center is being renovated. It can then be taken apart and permanently reinstalled at another facility, where it becomes a resource for the local community.
According to the 2025 report, pool reinstallation projects now represent approximately 5% of Myrtha Pools’ annual revenue. This growing part of the business demonstrates how circular principles can be applied throughout a project, from digitalization and detailed design to dismantling. Together, the figures and projects in the report describe a sustainability strategy increasingly based on measurable performance, product development, certified environmental data, and longer infrastructure life cycles. These principles are becoming part of how Myrtha Pools designs, manufactures, installs, renovates, and ultimately reuses its pools.
“The results achieved are the outcome of the daily commitment of every employee at Myrtha Pools and of the trust placed in us by our stakeholders,” concludes Colletto. The 2025 Sustainability Report offers a detailed look at how Myrtha Pools is translating its sustainability commitments into products, projects, and measurable results throughout its international business.
