SUSTAINABILITY
The company’ s environmental reports say that its ambition is to roll out this concept to all 39 of its factories by 2030, prioritising those in high water stress areas like Egypt, India and South Africa.
L’ Oréal’ s Burgos factory in Spain L’ Oréal’ s International Hair Care Products Factory in Burgos was established in 1971. It was one of the company’ s first to reach carbon neutrality in 2015 through the introduction of a biomass trigeneration plant. This enables it to use 100 % renewable energy. In addition to becoming the first Waterloop factory, the Burgos Green Lines project created a sustainable corridor of trains and ships to reduce Scope 3 emissions. L’ Oréal says this helped to achieve a 20 % decrease in carbon emissions associated with transportation.
In 2016 it was certified as a zero waste to landfill facility. A greenhouse at the factory is used to dry sludge, the primary waste generated by the plant, which uses solar energy to reduce its volume by 50 %. This waste then requires less transportation and further reduces emissions.
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