Unilever Achieves 100% Zero Waste to Landfill at All 26 Facilities in North America
17 April 2013 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
Unilever United States and Canada today announced that all 26 of
its manufacturing and non-manufacturing headquarter facilities are
now zero waste to landfill (ZLF). Other countries in which Unilever
has achieved this milestone include the United Kingdom, the
Netherlands, France, Germany and Japan.
Reducing waste sent for disposal is a critical component of
Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan. Established in 2010, the Plan
aims to halve Unilever’s environmental footprint of the making and
use of its products by 2020. As part of this ambitious plan,
Unilever is striving to be at or below 2008 levels of total waste
from manufacturing facilities by 2015 (five years earlier than
originally announced), despite producing significantly higher
volumes.
At present, more than half of Unilever’s 252 global factories
are ZLF. The key driver for this achievement of ZLF in both North
America manufacturing and non-manufacturing headquarter facilities
is the elimination of waste. Where reduction of waste is not
sufficient, the company’s facilities reuse, recycle, or recover
waste to reach zero waste to landfill.
For example, at the Owensboro, Kentucky facility, which produces
pasta sauce under the Ragu and Bertolli brands, paper and plastic
are sent for recycling, which is eventually converted into tissues
and composite lumber, respectively. The Clearwater, Florida plant,
which makes frozen ice cream novelties under the Klondike, Breyers,
Popsicle, and Good Humor brands, has a “reuse program” that
includes reusing cookie liners as trash bags throughout the
facility, donating office furniture to Habitat for Humanity,
donating used shoes to Pinellas Hope Charity, and selling
five-gallon plastic buckets to local stores. The Englewood Cliffs,
NJ, headquarter facility implemented waste centralization to
increase office recycling.
Unilever is implementing best practices from all over the world,
actively using its global supply chain network, to create more
environmentally responsible factories. By using the “design once
and deploy everywhere” philosophy, the company is driving a
sustainable model that is good for the environment and saves
costs.
“By eliminating waste, our employees are demonstrating our
sustainable business model in action,” said Kees Kruythoff,
President, Unilever North America. “This achievement is an
important milestone for Unilever as we continue to fulfil our
vision of significantly reducing our environmental impact while
doubling our business.”
About Unilever North America
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home
and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries. Our
products are present in 7 out of 10 homes globally and are used by
over 2 billion people on a daily basis. In the United States and
Canada the portfolio includes brand icons such as: Axe, Becel, Ben
& Jerry’s, Bertolli, Breyers, Caress, Clear Scalp & Hair
Therapy, Consort For Men, Country Crock, Degree, Dove personal care
products, Good Humor, Hellmann’s, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!,
Just for Me!, Klondike, Knorr, Lever 2000, Lipton, Magnum, Motions,
Nexxus, Noxzema, Pond’s, Popsicle, Promise, Q-tips, Ragu, Simple,
Slim-Fast, Soft & Beautiful, St. Ives, Suave, tcb, TIGI,
TRESemmé, Vaseline, and Wish-Bone. All of the preceding brand names
are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Unilever Group of
Companies.
Our ambition is to double the size of our business, whilst
reducing our overall environmental footprint (including sourcing,
consumer use and disposal) and increasing our positive social
impact. We are committed to helping more than a billion people take
action to improve their health and well-being, sourcing all our
agricultural raw materials sustainably by 2020, and decoupling our
growth from our environmental impact. Supporting our three big
goals are more than 50 time-based targets. See more on the Unilever
Sustainable Living Plan at
http://www.unileverusa.com/sustainable-living/ or
http://www.unilever.ca/sustainable-living/.
Unilever employs more than 12,000 people across North America –
generating over $10 billion in sales in 2012. For more information
visit www.unileverusa.com or www.unilever.ca.
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