Part 3 Unilevers Plan to help the Evironment

Unilever has multiple plans to help the environment they call it SUSTAINABLE LIVING. It is broken down into points : Greenhouse effect, health, and waste and packaging. Their are many more but these relate to my product i have chosen. Okay so to start their greenhouse plan starts with they are trying t reduce their amount of greenhouse gases (GHG). Here is what they say:

Our Compass strategy sets out our ambition as a company, which is to double the size of our business while reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact. This includes greenhouse gas emissions. Over 2008-2010 we conducted extensive work to understand the total greenhouse gas footprint of our product portfolio

Based on this analysis we set ourselves an ambitious target to halve the ‘per consumer use’ greenhouse gas impact of our products. This target will be achieved through:

• reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with our raw materials
• reducing the greenhouse gas impacts from our manufacturing and increasing our use of renewable energy
• reducing the emissions related to transport and refrigeration, and
• reducing the greenhouse gas impacts associated with the use of our products, in particular our skin, hair and laundry products.

This is there greenhouse plan Now here is there waste and packaging plan:

The targets we have set in our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan will require us to take the following steps to reduce our packaging and waste impact:

• reduce the quantity of packaging we require for our products. We will adopt leading-edge design techniques and choose materials to minimise impacts
• find more ways to enable our consumers to reuse product packaging, for example through the development of refill packs
• work on increasing the use of recycled and renewable materials in our packaging as well as making our products as recyclable as possible. This will require us to work with others through advocacy and partnership to strengthen the recycling and recovery infrastructure in countries where we sell products
• continue to reduce waste from our manufacturing process
• tackle sachet waste in developing and emerging markets
• eliminate particular materials of concern such as PVC.
  
  
  Now weather they are telling the truth on their website is to be decided. They have a sturdy plan and it seems to be working for them IF they are telling the truth.In part 4 of the Tresemme investigation i will post about what other people think or other websites say about the Unilevers environmental Footprint on them. 
  
  

Sites:

1. "Our Waste & Packaging Strategy." Unilever Global Company Website. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2013.
2. "Our Greenhouse Gas Strategy." Unilever Global Company Website. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2013.

Part 3 interpreting Plastic Graph

In this graph it show mechanical engineering, medical, footwear, packaging, building and construction,  electrical, furniture,transport, toys and agriculture. My product would fall under the category of packaging Tresemme uses plastic in the bottles and labeling. In my next post i will talk about Unilevers recycling process. On my next post it will help me to understand Unilevers relationship with the environment and how their product hurts or helps the environment.  

Econ questions part 2 Lauren

Lauren Williams Block G.

Econ. Part 2 questions

Name of product

• ·         TRESemme

Origin of purchase

• ·         America

Company name that owns it

• ·         Alberto-Culver used to own it but was bought over by Unilever  

Break down of the product

• ·         Water (Aqua, Eau), stearyl alcohol, cetyl alcohol, caprylic/capric triglyceride, stearamidopropyl dimethylamine, fragrance (parfum), lauroyl lysine, caprylyl glycol, brassica campestris/aleurites fordi oil copolymer, aspartic acid, distearyldimonium chloride, persea gratissima (avocado) oil, citric acid, alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, aloe barbadensis leaf juice.

Where is it manufactured

• ·         The bottle I bought was from America it was manufactured in Melrose Park IL, 60160 intended for distribution in the Americas

Where are the raw materials from

• The websites say that their main ingredients  are:   

·         Main ingredients are : Water, Aloe Vera and Avocado

Sites

                                            I.            Thread: Tresemme Naturals Ingredients - No Silicones, but Any Potential for Buildup?" The Long Hair Community Discussion Boards RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2013.

                                          II.            "TRESemmé." TRESemmé. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2013.

                                        III.            "Alberto Culver." Alberto Culver. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2013.

                                        IV.            "Naturals Moisture Conditioner." Natural Nourishing Conditioner. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2013.

Questions from Economics 1/14/13 Lauren Williams

1. What is your country of origin?

·         America

2. What is your countries economic system?

·         It is an Capitalist/ Market economy

·         Some people may say they have very close characteristics to each other

3. Highlight 5 characteristics of a Capitalist economy . Explain.

·         Resources  are owned by individuals meaning people handle their things without the government interfering and that people are able to do things themselves 

·         They consider individual economic  freedom very important in peoples life's meaning that people have the freedom to do their own things and are only required to do things appointed by the government so no one is enslaved.

·         There also is a lot of economic freedom in Capitalist/Market economies ( self explanatory).

·         Most decisions are based on the bases of supply and demand meaning all of the decisions on who wants the product they have and also the supply of how much they have produced

·         Under this Capitalist system  producing and distributing things can be handled by a small group of people meaning that even small companies or any company doesn't need to have a huge group of people to produce and distribute

4. What is your countries main economic activity?

·         Goods and services

·         Export of food

·         Getting money from  privately owned businesses  

Helpful Sheblak Definitions

Supply and Demand - Associated with market economies and setting price points, supply is the number of goods or services produced and demand is the number of consumers wanting the goods or services. The higher the demand and the lower the supply, the more expensive an item will be whereas the higher the supply and the lower the demand, the lower the price.

Capitalism - Capitalism is the economic system many are already familiar with. The purpose of capitalism is to ensure that production occurs that maximizes profit and is characterized by competition against other producers within the system. The means of production are privately held.

Market Economy - A market economy is an economy in which there is a strong division of labor (someone owns the restaurant, someone manages the restaurant, yet other people carry out the tasks of cooking and waiting tables); supply and demand is what allows individuals to set prices.

Site:

"Juan Sheblak's Blog." Juan Sheblaks Blog. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.

"EconomyU.S. Economic System." U.S. Economic System. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.

"World Socialist Movement." What Is Capitalism? –. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.

"Imports and Exports Components." About.com US Economy. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.

Economics Definitions

Our Group Definitions of Economics...

1. The study of goods and service exchange. 
2. The relationship of how different money sector interact together in the world of money. 
3. The study of marketing and the way people sell and buy things. 

Key  Words 

Study: how people analyzing economics 
Relationship: How the people in the world and the companies work together and interact. 
World: Economics is an international affair involving the whole world with or without money including trade and goods. 

Final Definition 

The study of the relationship of different money sector and how they interact together in the world of money. 

My Econ Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE65OtgAiNs

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