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Corporate Responsibility Report 2008

Sustainability

Traditional environmental programmes focus on managing wastes after they are generated by business processes.

Sustainable practices change the business processes themselves to consume less natural resource, switch to renewable materials, protect biodiversity, generate less waste, eliminate waste that is persistent, toxic or bioaccumulative and lower costs. This approach benefits the environment, society, GSK and future generations.

Our high priority sustainability issues are:

• Manufacturing efficiency – reducing the amount of raw materials needed to produce a finished product
• Climate change – reducing the climate impacts of our buildings, equipment, transport and products
• Water – reducing the amount of water we use
• Product stewardship – reducing the use of materials of concern and the environmental impacts of our products after use by the patient
• Packaging – reducing the amount of packaging we use and using recyclable and recycled materials

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