Global Citizenship
Safeguarding the
Environment
- Through an educational partnership
with Project WET, volunteers from Abbott’s manufacturing plant in Casa Grande,
Arizona, are helping local businesses, schools and families save more than 2.3
million gallons of water.
Abbott has long been committed to minimizing our global environmental
impacts – from the sourcing of raw materials, the manufacture and distribution
of our products, and the use and disposal of our products by consumers and
health care practitioners.
Our environmental stewardship initiatives help protect the planet while
improving efficiency, reducing costs and preserving our ability to do business
in the future. Our three environmental priorities are climate change, water
usage and product stewardship.
2015 Goals, Performance & Regional Data
Abbott has a long track record of setting environmental performance targets
– and challenging ourselves to achieve even greater results. Because we
achieved our previous environmental goals well ahead of schedule, Abbott in
2009 established a series of new targets to further minimize our environmental
impacts. By 2015, we seek to reduce:
- Absolute CO2 emissions (from direct emissions or
sources we own or control and from electricity we purchase) by 15 percent
- Total water intake by 50 percent (adjusted for growth)
- Total waste by 50 percent (adjusted for growth), including the objective to
achieve at least five zero waste to landfill plants by 2015
Key Environmental Metrics