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Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is a multinational consumer goods company operating in India. The company has established multi-year commitments across environment, social, and governance areas, positioning itself as a purpose-led, future-fit organization. HUL aligns with global best practices in sustainability, covering business model, governance, stakeholder engagement, and risk management through its integrated reporting framework.

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Brooke Bond Sustainability Actions

Reducing waste from manufacturing

Our factories have identified innovative ways to reuse various non-hazardous waste streams and maintain the status of 'zero non-hazardous waste to landfill' in factories and offices across HUL. This was done by maximising reuse and recycling of all non-hazardous waste in environmentally friendly ways. As compared to 2008, the total waste generated from our factories in 2019 has reduced by 63%. All our factories are also equipped with pre-processing facilities such as waste segregation and waste reduction at source, thus improving recyclability.

Reusable, recyclable or compostable plastic packaging

Our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) addresses the global issue of plastic waste and is committed to ensuring that 100% of our plastic packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025. In order to support our goal, we have committed to halving our use of plastic, by reducing the absolute use of plastic packaging by more than 100,000 tonnes and accelerating our use of recycled plastic. In 2019, we disposed of more than 39,000 tonnes of plastic waste in environment-friendly ways in India.

Reducing packaging

By 2030, we aim to halve the greenhouse gas impact of our products, by eliminating over 100,000 tonnes of plastic from our packaging. We have resized sachets across our hair and home care portfolio and reduced thickness of aluminium cans for deodorants, in order to save plastic. A key part of our sustainability programme, this requires us to speed up reusable, refillable, and no plastic product innovations. Besides, packaging innovation techniques such as our polymer and material use optimisation have also helped us save over 3,800 tonnes of polymer, 102 tonnes of aluminium and 2,700 tonnes of paper across categories, in 2019.  

Recycling packaging

In order to build a circular economy, plastic packaging needs to be recycled in environment- friendly ways. We are re-designing our products and revising our business model, not only with the aim of using less plastic, but also to inculcate the principals of reusing, recycling, and composting the minimal plastic currently used. To increase recycling and recovery rates in our packaging, we are using r-PET (80% recycled PET) in our blister packs for personal care brands like Pepsodent toothbrush and Glow & Lovely. We are also using post-consumer recycled polymer in our bottles. Tresemme, Sunsilk black, and Surf excel Liquid bottles are with 25% r-HDPE, while Vim bottles are 50% r-PET. Experimenting with new formats that either have no packaging at all or will use substitute materials for packaging, recyclability of our packaging is crucial to our future success. We have converted all our shampoo sachet and soap bar wrappers into the recyclable structure. Thus, exiting 2019 with 1.5KT of PCR used in our packaging.

Reducing office waste

In 2019, we made significant changes across all our offices and achieved the status of ‘Zero waste to Landfill’ for non-hazardous waste. We use ceramic cups instead of paper cups, hand dryers in the washroom instead of tissue paper, and recycled A4 sheets for printing. We have also replaced our paper records and files with digital records. Not only have we stopped using single waste plastics in our offices, but also, any composting food waste is utilised as manure for maintaining our gardens and landscapes.

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Brooke Bond Sustainability Commitments

2019

Renewable Energy

100% renewable electricity across all our offices in India in 2019.

2020

Reducing waste from manufacturing

By 2020, our target is to reduce the waste associated with the disposal of our products by half.

2025

Reusable, recyclable or compostable plastic packaging

Our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) addresses the global issue of plastic waste and is committed to ensuring that 100% of our plastic packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025.

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About Brooke Bond

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