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Water Usage. Clean water is a vital yet scarce resource, and billions of people each year
go without it every day. Many Promega locations worldwide incorporate design features
to conserve and insure proper disposal of water. Our offices in Sydney,
Australia, use rain water collected for cleaning, toilets and irrigation of
plants. Similarly, our Madison-based global headquarters building uses
rainwater collection, allowing runoff to drain to prairie and rain gardens
for natural filtration.
Water use decreased by 3% last year,
as indexed to revenue
Promega actively measures water and evaluates initiatives to save water in activities from
manufacturing, landscaping and daily office activity. Water is a challenge with water-intensive
manufacturing processes being increasingly needed. In 2012 we also saw extreme
weather in the summer, and water was used to supplement cooling systems that were
stressed. Despite these challenges, we saw water usage decrease by 3% as indexed to
revenue in the last year (Figure 10). Recent efforts to conserve water include:
• Our new GMP facility, the Feynman Center, will incorporate sustainable aspects
such as grey water flushing in restrooms, bio retention ponds for storm water
runoff and prairie restoration.
• Promega Biosciences’ “Green Team” in San Luis Obispo, CA has pushed
water conservation projects and has seen water usage decrease by 38% since
2008. One of the most significant projects was a water recirculating system for
distilled water where water is reused rather than sent down the sewer, saving
over 350,000 gallons of water a year.
AUSTRALIA
Gallons Per Million in Revenue
Global Water Usage
Global Water Usage
64
2008
58
66
64
62
3%
Less Water
Used
60
2012 2014 GOAL
Figure 10. Waste usage indexed to revenue
and progress toward 2012 target.
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