When Sustainability Meets the Numbers: Myrtha Pools’ 2025 ESG Report
Myrtha Pools’ fourth Sustainability Report details the company’s progress on sustainability, moving beyond commitments to examine measurable results, certified methodologies and the practical application of circular principles to its products and projects.
The legacy of Paris 2024 provides one of the clearest examples. Myrtha Pools pledged to reuse 80% of the materials used to construct the temporary competition and warm-up pools for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. According to the 2025 report, that pledge has now been met. Work to reinstall the Olympic pool began in 2025 at Aquarena in Sevran, a public aquatic centre on the outskirts of Paris, where the temporary pool is being given a second life for the local community. Myrtha has followed a similar approach in Brazil. Almost a decade after Rio 2016, the latest reinstallation of the Olympic Stadium pool at Parque Oeste Ana Gonzaga, west of Rio de Janeiro, completed the legacy project.
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.”
Circularity also features in the company’s product development. Myrtha R-Evolution was first trialled at Paris 2024 with a membrane containing 50% recycled material. From 2025, the solution has been manufactured with 60% recycled PVC content. The membrane is thicker, fully recyclable at the end of its life and covered by a 15-year warranty. Crucially, R-Evolution is now standard across 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 highlights the need for reliable environmental data that architects, consultants and contractors can use. Myrtha’s solutions have been mapped against the LEED v4, BREEAM and Green Star schemes, 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. They provide a framework for producing more rigorous and comparable Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), supporting a more structured approach to Life Cycle Assessment and environmental performance data across the swimming pool sector.
The report identifies 21 projects currently certified under LEED, BREEAM, HQE, Passivhaus or SITES Gold in 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, alongside the campuses of Bocconi University and Colby College, both certified LEED Platinum. These examples show how certified environmental information can be incorporated into building projects and sustainability certification processes.
The same approach to a pool’s entire life cycle is evident in two further solutions. Myrtha RenovAction allows ageing concrete pools to be refurbished without complete demolition, helping to avoid the additional CO₂ emissions associated with replacing the existing structure.
Myrtha’s modular technology also means that a temporary pool can serve a major sporting event or be installed while an existing aquatic centre is refurbished. Afterwards, it can be dismantled and permanently reinstalled at another facility for the local community.
According to the 2025 report, pool reinstallation projects now account for approximately 5% of Myrtha Pools’ annual revenue. This growing area of the business reflects the application of circular principles at every stage, from digitalisation and detailed design to dismantling. Taken together, the figures and projects in the report describe a sustainability strategy increasingly centred on measurable performance, product development, certified environmental data and extending the life of aquatic infrastructure. Myrtha Pools is integrating these principles into the way pools are designed, manufactured, installed, refurbished and ultimately 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 picture of how Myrtha Pools is turning its sustainability commitments into products, projects and measurable outcomes across its international business.
