Water
Working across all of our operations and activities and in partnership with Government, other stakeholders and the people who use our products, we will reduce our overall environmental impact.
Reduce water use in our manufacturing process
We are continuously decreasing water usage in our manufacturing process to meet a 15% reduction target by 2015 vs. a 2009 baselinethrough:
on-site water-saving awareness campaigns
using alternative dry methods to clean our factory environment
reviewing and minimising the water used to clean our manufacturing lines
Further to this we have plans in place to substantially reuse water across our operation sites by:
optimising our waste water treatment plant operations so that 70% of waste water can be reused on site.
making use of white water (storm water) and grey water (from showers and basins) to flush toilets and irrigate the site gardens at our factory sites and at our Ndlovu Park Mother Warehouse.
Improving water quality
In partnership with the Institute of Water Research at Rhodes University, the Unilever Centre of Environmental Water Quality (established in 2000) aims to leverage Government and relevant stakeholders to monitor and put in place programmes that improve the quality of South Africa’s water.
Future partnership aims
We will optimise our waste water plants so that we can recycle and reuse our waste water.
