Reckitt Benckiser “doing our bit”

Our environmental commitment

We have a real commitment to running our business in a responsible, environmentally sound and sustainable manner. We recognise that our processes and products have both direct and indirect environmental impacts and seek to achieve continuous improvement in our environmental performance.
We are committed to using energy and natural resources wisely, eliminating and minimising waste where practical, and re-using and recycling where it is sensible to do so.
We increasingly take a life cycle management approach to improving our sustainability performance. Our programmes look beyond the manufacturing activities under our direct control to the impacts of our supply chain and consumers use and disposal of our products and their packaging.
Here is some of our progress:

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 30% reduction per unit of production, and 21% in terms of actual emissions since 2000
Energy Use: 33% reduction per unit of production, and 24% in terms of actual energy used since 2000
Hazardous Waste: 48% reduction per unit of production and 41% in absolute terms since 2000