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Wakimoto puts his beliefs to work as Johnson & Johnson
Group of Consumer Companies packaging director for Latin
America. Starting in 2007, the BAND-AID ® Brand Adhesive
Bandages box has been made with materials certified by the
international Forest Stewardship Council, assuring that the
trees used come from responsibly managed forests. The facility
in Brazil produces about 90 percent of BAND-AID ® Brand boxes,
using wood from certified eucalyptus farms, a common tree
in Brazil.
“Some people think paper products in Brazil come from the
Amazon. We are not using old-growth trees,” Wakimoto says of
the box, which began to carry the FSC logo in 2008. There are
plans to add 30 percent post-consumer
recycled material later in the year.
From producing better boxes
and bottles to generating solar energy
and using 1,200 hybrid vehicles,
Johnson & Johnson companies are taking
innovative steps to reduce their
environmental impact around the world.
The organization takes to heart
Our Credo, which states: “We must
maintain in good order the property we
are privileged to use, protecting the
environment and natural resources.”
O U R C A R I N G T R A N S F O R M S :
Precious Resources
When Renato Wakimoto reads
to his 4-year-old daughter before bed, they like to point to pictures of her favorite
birds in the rainforest. “We shouldn’t destroy the forest,” he tells Natalia.
DOING OUR PART Johnson & Johnson
and its operating companies are doing
their part. Our companies reduced CO2
emissions by 16.8 percent from 1990 to 2006, surpassing
the goal of a 7 percent absolute reduction by 2010.
In the same period, sales grew 369 percent. And in 2007,
Johnson & Johnson won a Green Power Leadership Award
from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the sixth
consecutive year.
Last year, Johnson & Johnson cut the ribbon on its
ninth and largest solar facility in the United States, in sunny
Vacaville, Calif. More than 5,700 ground-mounted solar
From producing
better boxes and bottles
to generating solar
energy and using 1,200
hybrid vehicles,
Johnson & Johnson
companies are taking
innovative steps to reduce
environmental impact
around the world.
panels span six and a half acres. The panels face east in
the morning and follow the sun as it sets in the west.
“We’re getting energy from the sun and turning it into
electricity without creating waste and CO2 emissions,” says
Bill Haish, Senior Director of Engineering at the facility.
With the sun shining, the solar field provides up to a third of
the electrical power needed to run the Johnson & Johnson
pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Vacaville, enough
to power 1,000 homes.
In 2007, Johnson & Johnson was named the largest
corporate user of on-site solar power in the United States by
the World Resources Institute. Other green power efforts
include generating clean energy from
landfill gas and geothermal and biomass
systems. Green power accounted for
39 percent of the company’s electricity
use in 2006.
“Climate change is already
impacting human health. It is our
responsibility to take action to protect
future generations,” says Dennis
Canavan, Senior Director of Global
Energy, Johnson & Johnson.
PACKAGING IS A KEY PRIORITY It’s not
just the BAND-AID ® Brand box that’s
getting greener. At an environmentally
designed studio in Manhattan, a design
team dreams up boxes and bottles that
are not only visually striking but also environmentally sound.
“We think about making great designs and making them
sustainable at the same time,” says Chris Hacker, Chief Design
Officer, Johnson & Johnson Group of Consumer Companies
(JJGCC). “The key is considering sustainability from the
start. It really is an integrated part of the process, not a
separate process.”
One of the biggest achievements in 2007 was eliminating
PVC (polyvinyl chloride) from most consumer packaging,
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