Operations: Facilities & Logistics

We're improving the environmental profile of Wrigley Operations by:

  • reducing energy, greenhouse gases, water, and waste
  • identifying more efficient transportation options
  • leveraging high performance design to create new facilities and update existing facilities/processes
  • ensuring sustainable practices among external manufacturing partners
2007 Footprint Diagram

2007 Global Footprint Diagram

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The number one sustainability issue Wrigley is tackling at the factory level is reducing energy and our carbon footprint, followed by better utilization of our precious water sources. We are making considerable progress and have solid plans to continue on this sustainable path.

Beginning in the late 1990s, Wrigley first instituted a program called Pollution Prevention Energy Efficiency, better known as P2E2, to promote energy conservation, waste reduction and water conservation. This initiative, led by Wrigley's Environmental, Safety and Health (ESH) function, helped identify areas of improvement and encourage facilities to adopt environmentally friendly practices.

HIGHLIGHTS

We seek to continuously improve our environmental performance, including energy use, water use and discharges, waste generation, recycling/reuse, and greenhouse gas emissions. There have been some great successes:

Asquith Factory

Energy Conservation In 2005, the Asquith Factory built an energy-efficient warehouse with a sensor lighting system and superior insulation - reducing its power usage significantly.

Asquith Factory's warehouse utilizes a sensor lighting system and superior insulation to improve energy efficiency for the facility. In addition, natural daylight through skylights provides the only lighting between 8am and 4pm.

Wind Power

Energy Conservation Wrigley Australia's Epping office has begun using 100% green energy, sourced from the Lake Bonney 1 Wind Farm in South Australia.

The switch to wind power at the Epping office will reduce Wrigley's annual footprint by approximately 111 tonnes of CO2 emissions, the equivalent of taking 53 cars off our roads for a year.

Wind farms like Lake Bonney do not emit greenhouse gases in the generation of electricity, making wind energy a highly desirable form of renewable energy.

Water Conservation

Water Conservation In the last year, we reduced water consumption at our factories by nearly 20% compared to 2006.

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Environmental, Safety & Health

Part of our corporate culture is conducting our business in a socially responsible fashion. We have built environmental, safety and health considerations into all of our operations, with policies, standards and certifications, and metrics.
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What's next

In 2008, the goal across all 22 Wrigley factories combined is to save (in absolute terms) 5 to 7 percent of total energy usage, emit 5 to 7 percent less greenhouse gases, consume 2 to 4 percent less water and generate .5 to 2 percent less total waste (while recycling almost 40 percent already). The sustainability operations team is currently configuring five-year plans to increase these numbers. And, as new factories are considered for construction, they will be designed to be as efficient in the use of natural resources as possible from stage one.