L'Oreal and Veolia team up to clean up wastewater
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
As the world's water resources become increasingly scarce and more at risk to industrial and domestic pollution,theUnited Nationshas identified the reduction of untreated wastewater as an area of focus in the post-2015 development agenda following the Millennium DevelopmentGoals.
One company that has taken significant strides to put water sustainability goals ahead of the post-2015 roadmap is multinational beauty care products maker L'Oreal, which has committed to reduce 60 per cent of its water footprint by 2020, including howwastewateris discharged from all of its 43 factories worldwide, as outlined in its ‘Sharing Beauty with All' sustainabilityblueprint.
As part of a company-wide strategy to improve every aspect of its business operations through sustainable innovation, L'Oreal has built a sustainablewastewater treatment plant (WWTP) at its largest factory globally - located at the Jababeka industrial park in west Java, 60 kilometres east of Jakarta, Indonesia - that not only meets environmental standards, but also lowers operational carbon, water and wastefootprints.
At a recent media tour, the firm explained how it enlisted water treatment company Veolia Water Technologies to design an onsite wastewater treatment plant which is easy to operate and maintain within in its 66,000 square metrefactory.
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