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Kodak Showing Continued Progress on Voluntary Goals
In the spring of 1999, Kodak announced a series of voluntary, worldwide environmental goals to address three strategic initiatives:
- greater reduction in emissions;
- preservation of natural resources;
- further strengthen environmental management.
Each goal established an aggressive target to be met by January 1, 2004 - and all of the progress was to be accomplished on top of significant achievements already made in these areas.
Here's a look at Kodak's scoreboard after two years of work toward these five-year targets:
EMISSIONS REDUCTION
Goal: 40% aggregate emission reduction of 30 priority chemicals (from 1997 base levels).
At year-end 2000: A 30% reduction has been achieved, thanks in large measure to efforts at Kodak Park in Rochester and in Kodak's plants at Kirkby and Harrow in Great Britain.
Goal: 50% reduction in emissions of methylene chloride (from 1997 base levels). This will result in an aggregate, 15-year reduction of more than 90%.
At year-end 2000: Reduction of 43% has been achieved, all of which occurred at Kodak Park in Rochester.
Goal: 20% reduction in emissions from power production (emissions associated with global climate change).
At year-end 2000: 8% reduction has been achieved worldwide.
PRESERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES (indexed to production)
Goal: 15% reduction in energy used in manufacturing.
At year-end 2000: With excellent improvement achieved at Kodak's Harrow plant in Great Britain and at Kodak Park, energy used in worldwide manufacturing has been reduced by 22%.
Goal: 25% reduction in the production of manufacturing waste.
At year-end 2000: Waste has been reduced by 24%.
Goal: 15% reduction in water usage at manufacturing sites.
At year-end 2000: On a worldwide basis, water use has been reduced by 18%.
Goal: Targeted elimination of heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium) from Kodak products.
At year-end 2000 (percentages compiled by weight against a 1999 baseline): Average reduction for the four heavy metals was 18.8%. Mercury was reduced by 56.6%, lead by 0.4%, cadmium by 10.4%, and hexavalent chromium by 7.6%.
STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Goal: Have all major manufacturing sites certified to the ISO 14001 standard by January 1, 2004.
At year-end 2000: 25 out of 29 Kodak sites have been registered worldwide. See table at ISO 14001 Registration.
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