Sustainability Goals & Results As an Environmental Leader Program (Gold), we have been tracking our facility resource usage and environmental impact since 2015. We do this by setting goals and objects through an Environmental Management System (EMS), which is a tool our employee-led Sustainability Team can use to drive a reduction in the natural resource usage and waste production we have at our facility. Every year, this Sustainability Team sets goals around things like electrical usage, water usage, waste to landfill, and waste diverted to landfill measures. Through the collaboration of our passionate employees and like-minded business partners, we are proud to be making a real difference in our industry. Between 2015 and 2022 we have:
Reduced Electricity usage per pound of production by 39% Reduced Water usage per pound of production by 30% Reduce Trash to Landfill per pound produced by 73%
During the pandemic we cut back many of our more complex activities and our product mix changed significantly. This led to a dramatic reduction in resource intensity between 2019 and 2021. The bad news is that in 2022 as we saw a return to more normal patterns of business, and as more complexity crept back in, our resource intensity has increased from 2021 to 2022. Electricity usage grew 3%, water by 1% and trash to landfill by 8%. That said, we have held onto the majority of the gains we made and remain well below pre-pandemic usage levels. Our opportunity now is to learn from these gains in order to return to our downward trajectory.
2022 IMPACT REPORT
12
Made with FlippingBook Ebook Creator