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• Employment and development of our people
• Business Conduct
• Health and Safety
• The Environment
• Financial Performance
• Development of CSR reporting

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The Environment

PZ Cussons is fully committed to playing its part to protect and preserve the environment for the benefit of its employees, customers and the public at large. The Group ensures that it complies with environmental laws and regulations and continues to identify the ways in which its operations impact upon the environment and to find effective ways to reduce that impact. In particular, the Group recognises climate change as a global challenge for all businesses and for society in general. PZ Cussons is committed to contributing to the fight against climate change, not only in our manufacturing operations and supply chain but also in the wider arena of product design and use.

The UK Innovation Centre is a flagship for the Group in respect of environmentally sensitive manufacturing processes and the Group worked closely with the Environmental Agency in respect of its design and construction. As part of this process, there has been significant focus on the extent to which waste can be reduced within manufacturing processes and the output and learning from initiatives undertaken at other UK facilities in respect of effluents, packaging waste and water usage have been incorporated into the Centre’s design.

Energy usage
Within our business and supply chain we are working to combat the effects of climate change on two fronts:

• Through reducing the energy we use
• Through exploring and utilising alternative energy sources

Significant recent initiatives in reducing energy use include:

• The closure of outdated manufacturing sites and the transfer of production to more efficient sites. Examples include the establishment of a new soap factory in Thailand to replace older, less energy efficient facilities in the UK and Australia. In both the UK and Poland we have rationalised the three different sites in each location into one increasing the overall efficiency
• Choosing to invest in state of the art manufacturing facilities in our Nutrition business in Nigeria
• Over the last two years, the development and implementation worldwide of a soap manufacturing process which uses less energy per tonne of soap manufactured
• A Group initiative to move to more locally sourced raw materials and so decrease freight usage. Examples to date include:
  
  
  • local sourcing of packaging materials in Nigeria
  • local sourcing of palm oil in Ghana
  • retention within the UK of manufacturing of personal care and household liquids for the UK market, rather than sourcing from overseas
• The deployment of modern technology within the new Innovation Centre in the UK, ranging from the innovative use of recycled water to motion-sensitive lighting

The Group recognises that it can reduce both its carbon footprint and energy consumption by exploring and utilising alternative energy sources. The most significant project in this area over the last two years has been focused on Nigeria which accounts for a significant proportion of the Group’s manufacturing output. There has been significant investment in plant and machinery to enable power generation from gas rather than oil resulting in a reduction in energy usage and the move to a greener fossil fuel.

In addition to the above initiatives, each operating unit within the Group is continually reviewing energy usage, looking for ways to reduce energy use and assessing alternate energy sources.

Product design and use
We also work to reduce the impact of the Group’s operations on the environment by:

• Optimising product design
• Optimising product use

Recent examples of optimised product design include:

• The incorporation of more environmentally friendly packaging in new product development, such as ‘Doy’ packs or ‘pouches’, including being the first to launch these to the mass market in the UK
• The review and reduction of outer case packaging in the UK
• The manufacture and sale of Carex and other handwash refills in the UK and Australia so as to prolong the lifetime of dispensers

Significant recent initiatives in optimising product use include:

• Use of innovative water saving technology ‘Aquasave’ in Australia which has been used in laundry and dishwasher detergent and uses less water per wash
• Introduction of more environmentally friendly electrical goods in Africa