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Recycling

In 2004, we recycled 239.2 million kg of waste (67% of the 356 million kg of waste generated).

Over 77% of the total waste recycled was hazardous waste, primarily solvents.

New recycling programmes have led to significant reductions in waste at several sites. For example, in Cidra, Puerto Rico, recycling a range of materials has reduced non-hazardous waste disposed to landfill by 30-40% per year. In Clifton, New Jersey, US, recycling of plastic packaging materials has saved over 70 metric tonnes of waste per year.

 

 

 

Year	%
2001	0.04
2002	0.03
2003	0.02
2004	0.03

Percentage of 2001 baseline
2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
100%	99.3%	99.6%	88.5%	110%

	Hazardous	Non-hazardous
2001	288.5	79.5
2002	255.9	85.7
2003	235.1	90.7
2004	183.3	55.9

Business	2001	2002	2003	2004
01. R&D	20.73	17.38	23.86	25.73
02. Biologicals	14.46	13.40	19.01	22.94
03. Consumer healthcare	63.72	65.30	60.23	62.29
04. New product and global supply	42.67	45.95	44.03	46.42
05. Regional pharma supply	49.96	52.46	58.38	60.48
06. Primary supply and antibiotics	82.93	82.15	82.84	72.68
07. Commercial	32.60	44.53	44.62	34.80
08. Other	64.17	83.05	89.46	90.09

Total waste recycled decreased by 26.6% since 2003 (35.0% since 2001).

The proportion of waste recycled decreased by 11.1% since 2003 (11.5% since 2001) - meaning we are not on track to meet our 2005 target of a 10% increase in the proportion of waste recycled since 2001.

Production changes during 2004 led to a greater proportion of solvent waste being blended as a fuel or incinerated and less recycled.

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