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Wastewater

In 2004, we generated 13.9 million cubic metres of wastewater from our manufacturing processes and various site operations.

15% of total wastewater was reused, recovered or recycled. All of our five sites in India have implemented "zero wastewater" discharge programmes - reusing and recycling all wastewater. Another three sites (in Mexico, the Philippines and Turkey) also reuse all wastewater.

We assess the quality of our wastewater by measuring the chemical oxygen demand (COD) - the oxygen required to chemically oxidise organic and inorganic compounds present in the water.

One site in Brasov, Romania was fined 24,333,400 ROL (£409) by the local water company for exceeding the COD limit.

Year	Direct to sea	Direct to estuary	Municipal sewer	Other*
	(million cubic metres)
2001	5.4	2.1	10.0	3.5
2002	3.8	2.4	8.1	2.0
2003	4.3	1.8	7.9	2.2
2004	4.2	1.1	7.2	2.4

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Business	2001	2002	2003	2004
	(million cubic metres)
01. R&D	3.77	2.15	2.83	2.59
02. Biologicals	1.12	1.08	1.06	1.17
03. Consumer healthcare	4.00	3.46	3.80	3.15
04. New product and global supply	0.95	0.96	0.85	0.85
05. Regional pharma supply	1.49	1.62	1.52	1.49
06. primary supply and antibiotics	8.88	7.67	6.87	6.19
07. Commercial	0.00	0.54	0.16	0.30
08. Other	0.57	0.29	0.32	0.00

Wastewater chemical oxygen demand
Year	Direct to sea	Direct to estuary	Municipal sewer	Other*
	(million kg)
2001	13.0	8.1	6.1	0.6
2002	10.6	5.2	6.9	2.7
2003	11.1	4.7	7.3	1.5
2004	11.1	3.0	6.2	0.6

Per unit sales as percentage of 2001 baseline
2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
100%	88.2%	85.0%	75.8%	70.0%

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Business	2001	2002	2003	2004
	(million kg)
01. R&D	0.35	0.18	0.39	0.26
02. Biologicals	0.25	0.35	0.37	0.35
03. Consumer healthcare	1.61	1.50	1.72	1.50
04. New product and global supply	0.19	0.11	0.12	0.18
05. Regional pharma supply	0.29	0.22	0.18	0.41
06. Primary supply and antibiotics	23.82	21.89	20.77	17.78
07. Commercial	0.00	0.01	0.02	0.01
08. Other	1.32	1.18	1.18	0.47

Total water consumption decreased by 10.9% since 2003 (23.8% since 2001). Water consumption per unit sales decreased by 6.3% since 2003 (23.3% since 2001) - meaning we have exceeded our 2005 target of a 10% reduction per unit sales since 2001.

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