Tapping into our better nature.

Conserving water
From the U.S. to China, Canada to Australia, our manufacturing facilities are helping to protect our water supply by investing in new equipment and developing new processes that cut water consumption and effluent generation. Current programs include:

• Replacing tap water with collected rainwater for use in our processes and irrigation systems
• Employing P2 (pollution prevention) and next-generation equipment-cleaning technologies to reduce water demands
• Improving efficiency through automation and monitoring

Measures like these have helped our manufacturing plants in Canada, Mexico, and South Africa reduce water consumption by more than 30%.

Clearing the air
Since 2008, Buckman has been measuring our own Type 1 carbon footprint, which takes into account the carbon directly produced or sequestered at a site. And we have been carefully monitoring energy usage at all ten manufacturing plants so we can see exactly how we use electricity, fossil fuels, and steam. This allows us to precisely identify ways to reduce consumption and carbon emissions.

Fortunately, most of the processes used at our plants are reactions or blends that require little energy. In addition, Buckman maintains 4,000 acres of preserved forestland, which absorbs carbon dioxide out of the air, incorporates the carbon into the trees, and releases oxygen into the atmosphere. This one forest sequesters far more carbon dioxide than is generated by all our plants combined.

Reducing the Risks
In 2000, Buckman established quantitative metrics for measuring the environmental risk posed by our facilities' emissions to the air, the water, and the soil. We are proud to report that, while our production has increased 30%, our emissions risk has declined substantially.

We've reduced risks from emissions to the air by 70%. Emissions to water are down 30%. And risk from emissions to landfills is down 95%.

Buckman has particularly focused on eliminating emissions to landfills, with special emphasis on hazardous wastes. This has reduced long-term impacts to the environment and safeguarded well water sources.