Procter & Gamble’s Environmental New Year’s Resolution - Send Zero Manufacturing Waste to Landfill From All Production Si...
January 11 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Final Steps to Avert 650,000 metric tons of Waste From
Landfill
P&G announced today additional investments in recycling and
beneficial reuse that will eliminate all manufacturing waste from
its global network of more than 100 production sites by 2020.
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Since P&G began qualifying sites as zero manufacturing waste
to landfill, 56% of its global production sites have achieved this
milestone. Plans are now in place to complete the remaining
facilities over the next four years. This means eliminating or
beneficially re-using about 650,000 metric tons of waste,
equivalent to the weight of nearly 350,000 mid-sized cars that
would typically go to landfills.
“We are accelerating progress toward our long term vision and
pushing ourselves to do more – with less waste,” said Shailesh
Jejurikar, executive sponsor for sustainability and President of
Global Fabric Care. “Since 2010, we’ve been working toward a vision
of sending zero manufacturing and consumer waste to landfills. This
announcement marks another step on that journey.”
P&G will achieve its zero waste goals by ensuring all
incoming materials are either:
- converted into finished product,
- recycled internally or externally or
- re-used in alternative ways through partnerships.
P&G has been focusing on finding unique alternatives for its
waste. For example, in Lima, Ohio, liquid waste from products like
Tide and Gain are being converted to and other alternative fuels
sources to power vehicles. Non-recyclable plastic laminate
materials from our plants in Mandideep and Baddi, India are
shredded and pressed into low-cost building panels. Through efforts
such as these around the globe, P&G is not only reusing and
recycling for its own needs, it is investing in local communities
by helping convert its waste into raw materials and feedstock for
other companies.
Currently, more than half of P&G’s production sites have
achieved zero manufacturing waste to landfill status, including a
broad range of product families and geographic regions. In 19
countries (Germany, UK, Poland, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Egypt,
Belgium, Ireland, Vietnam, Hungary, Indonesia, Czech, Romania,
Singapore, Korea, Thailand, Turkey and Pakistan) all manufacturing
facilities have met the zero waste qualification, and the Company
is approaching 100% of sites in other countries including China and
India.
“Our employees are using the same innovation skills and zero
loss mentality they put into manufacturing our products to drive
out waste,” said Yannis Skoufalos, P&G President of Global
Product Supply. “For example surfactants from Head and Shoulders
waste in China are repurposed into carwash, while scrap from our
Tampax plant in Canada is used to make emergency spill containment
products. These innovative external partnerships enable our sites
to see scrap not as waste, but as potential worth for someone
else.”
For more information, please visit
http://us.pg.com/sustainability/environmental-sustainability/focused-on/waste.
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