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40 | HEINZ Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2005
Environmental Initiative
Heinz North America
Muscatine, Iowa, facility implemented a process to
shut off lights, electrical equipment and water using
devices during non-production weekends and holidays.
This initiative is estimated to have saved nearly
10 percent of the water used.
The Nashville, Tenn., Department of
Environment and Conservation presented
Portion Pac, Inc., a division of Heinz, with the
2005 Governor’s Award for Excellence in
Hazardous Waste Management. The award
was in recognition of the Portion Pac facility’s
efforts and record of reducing the hazardous
waste stream by 54.8 percent from 2003 to
2004 with the installation of a silver nitrate
recovery process. Hazardous waste was
reduced by approximately 98 percent in 2005.
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation later announced that
Portion Pac achieved Partner level status in the Tennessee Pollution Prevention
Partnership (TP3) environmental program. Heinz Portion Pac has shared the
success of the Silver Nitrate Recovery Process to reduce hazardous waste with other
Heinz facilities. As a result, other Heinz facilities are hoping to implement the
process and look forward to similar results.
Continuous Improvement
We have developed a new strategic direction
for the Heinz Global Environmental
initiative to underline our commitment to
responsible environmental stewardship
and compliance with environmental laws
and regulations. Our guiding objectives are:
1. Eliminate waste where feasible.
2. Find beneficial uses for waste that cannot
be eliminated.
3. Minimize the cost and impact of disposing
what waste is remaining.
Aligned with these overall goals is our
strategy for the next two years, which
provides for the following enhancements:
• Common framework across global
operations with consistency in approach,
execution and performance measures
• Common focus on legal compliance,
waste reduction and continuous
improvement
• Leverage best practices and tools
across global operations
• Address international attention to
global warming and environmental
impacts of companies.
In summary, although there have been
challenges in managing environmental
impacts in the midst of aggressive and
significant change in manufacturing
footprint, Heinz has avoided significant
increases in the use of resources within
manufacturing operations. Our challenge
now is to steadfastly and resolutely
attack the energy-intensive aspects
of our operations and once again drive
substantial reductions in usage.
We are confident we have set a sound
strategic direction that, coupled with a
talented global environmental team,
will achieve the improvements desired.