Recycling our own waste
We've been working hard to minimise waste from our seven manufacturing sites in Great Britain. For many years we've set progressive targets for recycling and reducing the amount of waste we sent to landfill, making big investments in recycling at all our sites.
In 2010 this work continued and as a result:
- Nearly 99.9% of waste at our manufacturing sites is now recycled or recovered
- Only 0.1% goes to landfill
Our plant in Wakefield achieved zero landfill status in 2009 followed by Edmonton, Enfield, Milton Keynes, Sidcup and Colwall in 2010. Our distribution-only site in Northampton also achieved zero landfill status in 2010. In early 2011 our factory at East Kilbride achieved zero waste status and we are on target for our remaining manufacturing site in Morpeth to send zero waste to landfill by the end of 2011.
We are very proud of our achievements, but we think we can do even better. Our goal is now to recycle all of our waste, sending none to landfill at all.
