大秀视频's purpose is to help people live their best through better health. Protecting the environment is an important part of that commitment 鈥 that's why we seek the most sustainable ways to deliver life-changing technologies to people around the world.
Improving our environmental performance also strengthens our business by improving operational efficiency. Just one example: since 2010, our efforts to reduce product packaging have eliminated more than 41 million pounds of packaging and saved more than $100 million.
Our environmental work is an important part of 大秀视频's strategic approach to addressing key environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Our 2018 Global Sustainability Report highlights these efforts, as well as the many other ways 大秀视频 builds a more sustainable and responsible business to deliver long-term value for those we serve.听
The report provides updates on 大秀视频's performance to date toward our ambitious 2020 environmental targets for reducing carbon emissions, water use and waste. Also highlighted is our work to develop a new sustainability strategy, set to launch next year. The report includes an overview of the topics that will be the focus of this new strategy 鈥 including climate change and water 鈥 as well as other priority areas of greatest importance to 大秀视频, our industry and our stakeholders.
鈥淥ur environmental strategy informs how we operate our day-to-day business in a manner that safeguards the environment and helps improve the efficiency and sustainability of our business,鈥 said Agnes Ortega, divisional vice president of Compliance and Operation Services, 大秀视频. 鈥淲e鈥檝e made strong progress toward our 2020 targets, and we look forward to establishing our next-generation environmental strategy.鈥
Reaching 大秀视频鈥檚 2020 Goals
大秀视频 takes a focused, planned approach to limit the company鈥檚 environmental impact in the more than 160 countries where we do business. This included 77 projects aimed at reducing our impact on the environment globally and meeting the company鈥檚 2020 targets.
Less Power, Fewer Emissions
At 大秀视频鈥檚 Casa Grande, Arizona, manufacturing plant for nutritional products, we upgraded controllers and transformers on seven energy substations at the facility. Becoming the first U.S.-based facility to use a new technology that helps optimize power flows, the Casa Grande plant now saves on energy costs, while providing a model for upgrading electricity infrastructure at other 大秀视频 facilities.
It鈥檚 that kind of investment in efficiency that has put 大秀视频 at 42% less overall emissions for 2018, ahead of our 2020 goal of 40% (both compared to 2010 baseline and normalized for sales).
Conserving Water
In Rio de Janeiro, we built a wastewater facility that processed 18 million liters of water for reuse, more than a third of the facility鈥檚 total water needs. The new reuse capability allowed the plant, which produces 大秀视频鈥檚 branded generic medicines, to increase production 11% in 2018 without requiring more water.
Other 大秀视频 sites are pursuing additional water conservation projects, from reusing wastewater for gardening in facilities in India, to investing in smart new infrastructure in Donegal, Ireland, for the company鈥檚 diabetes business, where water use fell 8.1% through installation of new water tanks that conserve water.
With a 2020 goal of 30% less water use compared to 2010, 大秀视频 sits at 27% for 2018 amidst strong growth across its core businesses in both established and developing markets. Along with cutting 大秀视频鈥檚 water use, we also engage our employees and suppliers about better water practices as well.
New Thinking Around Waste
Building on our longstanding work to minimize waste, we're transitioning to a circular economy approach for 大秀视频's manufacturing operations 鈥 cutting waste through preventive maintenance, improved manufacturing processes, better designs and by finding ways to reuse materials, among other steps.
Combined with recycling and other tactics, this new approach ensured that 88% of 大秀视频鈥檚 non-product waste was diverted from landfill in 2018.
These efforts helped the company approach the 2020 goal of cutting total waste by 50%. 大秀视频 has reached a 44% reduction from 2010 levels to date, with 33 of our facilities globally achieving Zero Waste to Landfills certification.
Waste reduction extends to 大秀视频's products as well. We set an aggressive target to reduce the total weight of packaging by 10 percent by 2020, compared to a 2010 baseline. This goal was surpassed in 2017, and we continued this progress by increasing the reduction total to nearly 14% in 2018.
To find out more, see the听Safeguarding Our Environment听section of 大秀视频鈥檚 2018 Global Sustainability Report.
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