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About Our Environmental Practices
of secondary packaging would be the
plastic safety seal placed around a bottle
cap. Tertiary packaging would include
outer containers such as needed for
palletizing and shipping.
2º and 3º PVC Packaging – Worldwide
Million kilograms used
Goal (by 2010) 0
2005 1.54
2006 0.20
2007* 0.24
*Includes former Pfizer Consumer
Healthcare PVC.
We have eliminated 84 percent of our
secondary and tertiary PVC packaging
across the Company. Again, current uses
of secondary and tertiary PVC are largely
attributable to the former PCH products.
PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP
At Johnson & Johnson, our operating
companies strive to review all new
products, processes and packaging for
environmental impacts using our internal
Design for Environment tool. Increasingly,
stakeholders are interested not only in
what comes out of our facilities, but also
what goes in. Evaluating a product’s
lifecycle enables developers to identify
and reduce environmental impacts
introduced by raw material selection,
product use and product disposal. In
many countries, legislation is emerging
to restrict the use of certain potentially
harmful substances.
We have a Healthy Planet 2010 goal
that challenges each of our franchises to
continuously improve their product and
process environmental profiles. At the
end of 2007, 90 percent of our franchises
had such a plan. Our Consumer Group
of Companies has a number of product
ingredient strategies; in Medical Devices &
Diagnostics, product improvements
include eliminating heavy metals, PVC
and solvents; and the Pharmaceutical
Group has implemented green chemistry
strategies. Johnson & Johnson also
participates in the Product Sustainability
Roundtable (PSRT), an organization
that benchmarks product sustainability
programs and keeps abreast of emerging
best practices.
Our operating companies with
electronic products are also committed
to implement an electronics take-back
program in 100 percent of their regions,
with a plan to recycle or remanufacture
them to the extent possible. As of the end
of 2007, they had achieved 21 percent
coverage. In addition, the weight of
products taken back increased by
6.7 percent when compared to 2006,
and by more than 1,500-fold when
compared to the baseline year, 2005.
TRANSPARENCY
Johnson & Johnson has worked to
increase its transparency since 1993,
when we published our first corporate
environmental report. Since then, we
have steadily increased the information
available to the public about our environment,
health and safety performance
and expanded our reporting to include
the full range of sustainability topics
in 2003. In 2006, we began a Healthy
Planet 2010 commitment to have 100
percent of our manufacturing and R&D
facilities providing facility- or companyspecific
environmental sustainability
information. While guidance about the
types of information has been provided,
facilities customize their information
based on local community and stakeholder
interests. At the end of 2007, 66 percent
of our facilities had a transparency report
posted to our website.
We have been honored
as a Green Power Partner
of the Year in 2003, 2005,
2006, and 2007 and we
received a Green Power
Leadership Award
in 2002 and 2004.
We participate in this
program because we
believe that our
investment in green
power helps support the
development of renewable
generation capacity in
the U.S. while protecting
the environment.
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