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In 2018, L’Oréal continued to implement its sustainable sourcing policy for renewable raw materials, strengthening it with the support of the NGO Rainforest Alliance.

In the face of the climate emergency, the Group has committed to balance its residual CO2 emissions (Scope 1 and 2, downstream transport and finished products) by the end of 2020, in order to become a Carbon Balanced company. This ambition reinforces L’Oréal’s low carbon strategy, which takes a dual approach to reducing the Group’s carbon footprint – lowering the emissions linked to its industrial and logistics activities while balancing residual emissions.

In 2018, L’Oréal Paris launched its Stylista Beach Wave Mist. The research behind this product has enabled the creation of an ultra-light mist texture combining two requirements: effectiveness and respect for the environment.

For more than 10 years, L’Oréal has been committed to an ambitious policy regarding sustainable development including an in-depth work on the usage of plastics.

In 2018, L’Oréal collaborated with the NGO SNV (Netherland Development Organisation) to implement a sustainable sourcing project focusing on palm oil derivatives in the region of Berbak in Jambi, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

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Since 2007, L’Oréal has implemented a responsible packaging policy based on three pillars, known as the “three Rs”: Respect, Reduce and Replace. The Group uses a global, systematic eco-design process, ahead of product design, for the packaging of finished products and also for packaging used during transport.

Established in 1959, the Group’s Settimo plant in Italy specialises in producing make-up and hair care products.

In addition to its renewable energy production installations, the Burgos plant in Spain established a wastewater recycling system in 2015.