Campbell's Promotes Sustainable Manufacturing

Campbell's Promotes Sustainable Manufacturing

Campbell has a company-wide program to manage the environmental impact of our 38 manufacturing facilities. To integrate environmental management through all business operations worldwide, our program sets goals for energy and water conservation, waste management and recycling.

We have implemented programs to measure our progress at each of our facilities. Plants develop individual action plans that must be executed within six months. The criteria we use to measure environmental compliance at each of our plants is updated on a regular basis to reflect emerging concerns and new regulations. To help ensure that our audits are conducted according to current standards, we joined the International Audit Protocol Consortium (IAPC) in 2001.

Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions

As a food company that relies on a consistent supply of high-quality agricultural crops, Campbell is deeply concerned about the risks posed by climate change. To reduce the amount of energy consumed and the associated costs to Campbell, we have implemented a number of initiatives to reduce our energy use globally through a combination of energy reduction targets, new low-energy technologies and alternative fuels.

"In 2005 we set a goal to reduce the energy required to produce our products in our largest area of operation, North America, by 10 percent by 2010." - Campell's

In 2005 we set a goal to reduce the energy required to produce our products in our largest area of operation, North America, by 10 percent by 2010. Teams based in our plants and charged with meeting this goal have already reduced total energy consumption by seven percent through initiatives such as energy audits, heat recovery projects and leak-detection techniques. Capital projects are currently being implemented to further improve the efficiency of our energy use, to eliminate waste and to reduce the energy required in our manufacturing processes.

In August 2006 Campbell joined the U.S. EPA Climate Leaders program, a national voluntary effort to reduce GHG emissions. As a Climate Leader Partner, Campbell is committed to taking the following measures:

• Develop an inventory of the six major greenhouse gases and report progress annually based on detailed EPA protocols and guidance
• Develop a corporate GHG inventory management plan based on a detailed EPA checklist to institutionalize the inventory process
• Set an aggressive company-wide GHG emissions reduction goal to be achieved over the next five to 10 years
• Track and report 100 percent of the emissions from facilities and operations over which Campbell has financial control

As of December 2007 we had completed an inventory of all U.S. facilities and calculated the direct and indirect GHG emissions related to our use of fuel and electricity. We are currently reviewing this data with Climate Leaders to ensure the quality of our baseline emissions data. We are on track to complete this process and to set our GHG reduction goals by August 2008.

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