Thinking circular
We’re working to understand the full flow of materials through our business - from food scraps to office supplies and water - so we can reduce waste, design out landfill and keep resources in use for longer.
Water
We work towards minimising water usage by designing concentrated formulations that require less product to get the job done well. Our wastewater management also starts at the design stage, when we select ingredients that are less harmful when they disappear down the drain.
Watercare visits us twice a year to sample wastewater and check we are compliant with environmental standards.
Waste
We’re always looking for ways to minimise waste and set ourselves annual targets, including increasing the accuracy of our waste data.
We work with Enviro NZ to dispose of our concentrated ingredients responsibly. And with an organisation called Reclaim, who are experts in landfill diversion and waste minimisation.
Over the last decade, we’ve reduced the amount of waste we send to landfill by roughly 50% per tonne of product we make.
Managing our impact
We constantly monitor water, waste and energy and find ways to be as efficient as possible with what we use. At our Toitū Enviromark Diamond and ISO environmental management certified factory, there’s an ongoing process of fine-tuning and improving the way we do things now, and into the future.
Toitū Enviromark
This certification means we exceed the requirements of ISO 14001, one of the world’s best-known environmental standards. Since 2009, our factory has been audited each year to the highest level Toitū Enviromark certification: Diamond.
Environmental management
Our ISO 14001 certification ensures we carefully measure and manage our water, waste and energy and have processes in place to improve our efficiency. Our Environmental Management system is audited to this level every year.
