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with the exception of over-the-counter pharmaceutical
products where drug safety is an issue. Also in 2007, the
AVEENO ® POSITIVELY AGELESS ™ and JOHNSON’S ® SOOTHING
NATURALS ™ lines added 30 percent post-consumer recycled
material to their High-Density Polyethylene bottles.
MANY STEPS TO A SMALLER FOOTPRINT “Sustainability
is a process,” says Michael Maggio, Vice President, JJGCC,
Global Strategic Design Operations. “We start with small steps
and then improve as we go in order to ensure that not only
P R E C I O U S R E S O U R C E S
G R O W I N G
F U T U R E B O X E S
Packaging
Director Renato
Wakimoto
stands among
eucalyptus
trees in an
FSC-certified
farm in Brazil
that will one day
provide pulp
for more of the
BAND-AID ® Brand
boxes he’s
holding.
packaging but the process itself is sustainable.”
These steps circle back to Brazil, where 77 percent
of waste material from the 17-building manufacturing facility
in São José dos Campos gets recycled. The recycling center
sorts almost 9,000 tons of material a year and sells much
of it to companies that turn unapproved shampoo bottles
into toys, sanitary napkins into shoe parts and diapers into
car brakes.
“Every one of these steps contributes to a healthier
planet,” Wakimoto says.
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