Henkel packages turn 89 percent
Henkel expands its sustainability strategies and its scope while continuously editing its targets. It is the foundation of the company’s sustainability strategy to create more value with less resources and to reduce global footprint while contributing to the well-being of the growing world population. For this purpose, in the strategy created in 2010, the results of 2020 come to the half of the road to 2030. Henkel revealed a significant progress in all sizes of sustainability strategy over the past decade. On the general scale, the company managed to reduce 39 percent of three different sizes, including environmental footprint carbon dioxide release, waste and water. This means that more than 30 percent reduction targets are achieved for 2020, a considerable level of progress is achieved.. In addition, Henkel also kept the 2020 security target by reducing the global accident frequency rate by 50%.
30 years in sustainability reporting
Henkel released its first sustainability report in 1992. This makes Henkel one of the companies that can proudly look at the history of 30 years of stable sustainability reporting among the sectors it operates and companies within the Germany DAX stock index. The first report, which was named ‘Environment Report’, in addition to other topics, was included in the principles of Henkel’ in environmental protection. [[T]]]
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65 percent target up to 2025
Henkel continues its long-term vision in the direction of being a climate-positive company in order to reduce carbon dioxide release and limit global warming. The company aims to reduce the carbon footprint from its production to 2025 percent. Henkel has been aiming to continuously increase energy efficiency and make electricity used only from renewable sources.
In addition to Henkel, it is aimed to help customer, consumer and suppliers reduce carbon dioxide emissions by increasing global access strength and space of brand and technologies. Henkel aims to remove this amount of 100 million tones from 2025 to 5 years.
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2025 target 100 percent return packing[
Henkel actively promotes the development of a circular economy and continues its work for its ambitious goals for packaging. The specified target for 2025 is that Henkel packaging can be recycled or reused by 100 percent. When it comes to the end of 2020, the company managed to perform this goal by about 89 percent. Many brands in Henkel use packagings made from recycled materials. The company aims to remove recycled plastic rate used in consumer products over 30 percent worldwide. At the end of 2020, this rate was about 15 percent. [
Source: Sustainable Business