When Sustainability Meets the Numbers: Myrtha Pools’ 2025 ESG Report
Myrtha Pools’ fourth Sustainability Report sets out the company’s progress on sustainability. It moves beyond commitments to focus on measurable results, certified methodologies and the practical application of circular principles across its products and projects.
One of the clearest examples is the legacy of Paris 2024. 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, that commitment has now been fulfilled. The reinstallation of the Olympic pool began in 2025 at Aquarena in Sevran, a public aquatic centre on the outskirts of Paris, giving the temporary pool a second life as a community facility. A similar approach has been taken 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 shows how circularity is being built into product development. First trialled at Paris 2024 with a membrane containing 50% recycled material, Myrtha R-Evolution has since evolved into a solution made with 60% recycled PVC content from 2025. The membrane is also thicker, fully recyclable at the end of its life and covered by a 15-year warranty. Most significantly, R-Evolution has become the new standard for all Myrtha pools, rather than an optional upgrade. It has already been installed at the Aquamore Ghedi aquatic centre 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.”
Alongside product innovation, the report emphasises the importance of reliable environmental data for architects, consultants and contractors. Myrtha’s solutions have been mapped against the LEED v4, BREEAM and Green Star frameworks, helping professionals identify and obtain credits under leading green building certification systems.
In 2025, this work extended to the development of methodologies for the wider industry. Myrtha Pools acted as a promoter and technical expert in the development of two newly published Product Category Rules for swimming pool tanks, EPDItaly049 and EPDItaly055. These rules provide a framework for preparing more rigorous and comparable Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), supporting a more structured approach to Life Cycle Assessment and environmental performance data in the swimming pool sector.
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 show how certified environmental information can be used in building projects and their sustainability certification processes.
The same approach to the full life cycle of a pool is reflected in two solutions. Myrtha RenovAction enables ageing concrete pools to be refurbished without complete demolition, helping to avoid the additional COâ‚‚ emissions associated with replacing the existing structure.
Myrtha’s modular technology also allows a temporary pool to be installed for a major competition or while an aquatic centre is being refurbished. It can then be dismantled and permanently reinstalled at another facility, creating a new resource for the local community.
According to the 2025 report, pool reinstallation projects now account for approximately 5% of Myrtha Pools’ annual revenue. This growing part of the business reflects the application of circular principles throughout a project, from digitalisation and detailed design through to dismantling. Together, the figures and projects in the report describe a sustainability strategy increasingly grounded in measurable performance, product development, certified environmental data and longer infrastructure life cycles. Myrtha Pools is integrating these principles into how pools are designed, manufactured, installed, refurbished and reused.
“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 provides a detailed account of how Myrtha Pools is translating its sustainability commitments into products, projects and measurable outcomes across its international operations.
