Environment, health and safety
USA, Colorado
Increased recycling at Aurora Warehouse
Significant efforts have been made to increase recycling at this site, which have resulted in the following improvements in 2006:
- 143,550kgs of broken pallets have been sold to a pallet recycling company, which breaks the pallets into parts to make new pallets. The 10% of the wood that is unusable as pallet parts is chipped and used as mulch. This has saved an estimated 2,684 trees.
- 886kgs of plastic caps and 511kgs of lipstick caps from damaged or out of date products have been removed for recycling.
- 14,227kgs of plastic stretch film (low density polyethylene) has been recycled into new plastic. Back to initiatives
- 143,550kgs of broken pallets have been sold to a pallet recycling company, which breaks the pallets into parts to make new pallets. The 10% of the wood that is unusable as pallet parts is chipped and used as mulch. This has saved an estimated 2,684 trees.
- 886kgs of plastic caps and 511kgs of lipstick caps from damaged or out of date products have been removed for recycling.
- 14,227kgs of plastic stretch film (low density polyethylene) has been recycled into new plastic. Back to initiatives