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:
- "Our Waste & Packaging Strategy." Unilever Global Company Website. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2013.
- "Our Greenhouse Gas Strategy." Unilever Global Company Website. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2013.
First off, I would like to say that this project is very well done and has included a lot of information. i think it was a really good idea to chose a product that the company is owned by another company because it makes it more interesting and more of a challenge to see where the product really came from. I don't know if you posted it is somewhere else, but it would have been really cool to see what other people thought of the environmental effects of the company Unliever. In general though, the company seems to have really well set-out plans for how to be environmentally friendly. One would expect though, that a company with so much money and so big like that would have enough money to donate and use recycled things. At the same time, like you mentioned, i completely agree that everything they say could be a lie because since it is a big company, they could probably care less, and only care about the money that they are making. You have given sufficient information for one to see (if they were interested in) where exactly the product came from, and even the ingredients in the product. I think your assignment was very well done, good job lauren!!
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