Performance against targets
Smiths set itself targets for reducing water consumption by 9%, waste generation by 9% (both normalised against sales) and to cap its greenhouse gas emissions at FY 2006/07 levels (absolute). These goals were to be achieved by 31 July 2010.
The rate of our environmental performance improvement has been beyond our expectation, currently beating our goal for 31 July 2010.
Our online data management system has given us improved quality and timely data with monthly reporting and real time checking for errors. More Smiths businesses than ever before now report. The data does not include businesses disposed of during the year.
Our heightened focus on compliance has increased our confidence that our operations are maintaining compliance. We had no fines during the 2009 fiscal year.
Performance against targets
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2009 result |
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Greenhouse gas emissions |
9% reduction |
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No absolute increase over the 2007 baseline |
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Total non-recycled waste |
31% reduction |
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9% reduction over three years normalised against turnover |
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Water consumption |
21% reduction |
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9% reduction over three years normalised against turnover |
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Smiths Medical, Monterrey Mexico: RecyclingWarehouse
Smiths Medical Monterrey is committed to the environment and to minimising any impact upon it, reducing, reusing, recycling and disposing of resources responsibly. A recent improvement was made to the site's recycling programme, which included building a special recycling warehouse and implementing a new recycling system. The warehouse helps to separate recyclable materials correctly as well as making the process easier and faster. Useof the warehouse has reduced the amount of material sent to landfill.
In addition, the site has partnered with a local recycler which processes and sells waste plastic as raw materials to other companies. The recycler takes many types of materials including office paper, plastic bags, aluminium cans, and electronic products. Another external supplier even takes the kitchen organic residuals for pigs' fodder. The site earns approximately USD$18,000 per year from its recycling programme and the money is used for the site's community programme.