John Temple, Unilever - LCA Sustainable Product Design Europe ...

London Business Conferences
LCA
Sustainable
Product
Design
14 th 
December
2010
Tools to create sustainable
products
Dr John Temple
R&D
Sustainability
Director

Who
are
we
?
Key facts
163,000
employees
in
around
100
countries
worldwide
In
2009
our
worldwide
turnover
was
€39.8
billion
and
we
invested
€891
million
in
R&D
2
billion
?mes
a
day
someone,
somewhere
will
use
a
Unilever
brand
We
have
264
manufacturing
sites
worldwide
We
invested
€89
million
in
community
projects
worldwide
in
2009.

Long
history
of
reduc?on
in
manufacturing
CO 2 e from energy
Water use
Total waste
247.35
7.95
24.27
142.16
- 40%
- 65%
2.81
- 73%
6.52
kg/tonne production m 3 /tonne production kg/tonne production

Our
direct
impacts
are
small
C0 2 e
Water
Waste
-43%
-75%
-63%
Less
than
3%
direct
impact
Raw Materials Manufacture Transport Consumer Use
Disposal

Three
principles
ALL BRANDS
ALL COUNTRIES

Three
principles
ALL BRANDS
ALL COUNTRIES
LIFECYCLE
IMPACTS
Raw Materials Manufacture Transport Consumer Use
Disposal

Three
principles
ALL BRANDS
ALL COUNTRIES
LIFECYCLE
IMPACTS
SOCIAL
ECONOMIC
ENVIRONMENTAL

All
four
metrics
are
important
Greenhouse gases per consumer use
Water per consumer use
Packaging and waste per consumer use
Sustainably sourced materials by % weight

Three
years
of
work
later..
1,651
REPRESENTATI
VE PRODUCTS
14
COUNTRIES
70%
OF OUR
SALES
These
represent
30,000
individual
products
Brazil,
China,
France,
Germany,
India,
Indonesia,
Italy,
Mexico,
the
Netherlands,
Russia,
South
Africa,
Turkey,
UK
and
US
We
are
confident
that
this
provides
sufficient
coverage
to
say
that
the
environmental
impact
results
are
representa?ve
of
Unilever
as
a
whole

Three
years
of
work
later..
HALVE
ENVIRONMENTAL
FOOTPRINT OF
OUR PRODUCTS
SOURCE
100%
OF AGRICULTURAL
RAW MATERIALS
SUSTAINABLY
HELP
1 BILLION
PEOPLE IMPROVE
THEIR HEALTH
& WELLBEING

Our
greenhouse
gas
summary
Raw
Materials
Manufacture
Transport
Consumer
Use
Disposal
26%
3%
2% 1%
68%
Results
are
expressed
as
grams
of
CO 2 e
across
the
life‐cycle
We
use
GaBi
so_ware
from
PE
Interna?onal

GHG
reduc?on
in
the
shower
is
a
priority

Consumer
behaviour
change
By
2015
we
intend
to
reach
200
million
consumers
with
products
and
tools
to
help
them
use
less
water
when
washing
and
showering
Our
goal
is
to
reach
400
million
by
2020
hcp://www.sustainable‐living.unilever.com/our‐approach/environmental‐impacts/

Consumer
behaviour
change
hcp://www.sustainable‐living.unilever.com/our‐approach/environmental‐impacts/

Consumer
behaviour
change
hcp://www.sustainable‐living.unilever.com/our‐approach/environmental‐impacts/

Our
water
summary
Water
used
in
the
raw
materials
we
source
approx 50%
Water
we
add
to
the
product

Water
reduc?on
in
laundry
is
a
priority
50%

Consumers
‐
Laundry
Reduce
water
use
by
making
easier
rinse
products
more
widely
available
Provide
50
million
households
in
water‐scarce
countries
with
detergents
that
deliver
excellent
cleaning
but
use
less
water
by
2020

Our
waste
summary
Primary
packaging
Transport
packaging
Product
le_overs
Na?onal
index
of
materials
recycled
&
recovered
59%
14%
27%
X%
+ + ‐ = Our
waste
footprint
These
come
from
the
specifica?ons
of
our
products
This
comes
from
direct
measurement
This
is
an
es?mate
based
on
published
informa?on
in
each
country
Results
are
expressed
as
grams
of
waste
per
consumer
use

Our
waste
summary

Helping
innova?on
teams
Simple evaluation tools
have been added to gatekeeping
documents, which
allows the environment to
be part of the overall
business case

Summary
Measurements
have
been
a
powerful
tool
for
iden?fying
where
to
focus
to
turn
talk
into
ac?on
Internal
tools
are
just
as
valid
for
making
priority
decisions
and
to
guide
innovators
They
do
need
to
be
sensible,
peer
reviewable
and
auditable
Environmental
reduc?on
makes
enormous
business
sense

Thank
you.
Your
thoughts
and
ques?ons?
want
to
know
more?
See
www.sustainable‐living.unilever.com