Sanitarium is also looking at ways to conserve energy and water, and subsequently reduce waste at its factories.  Driven by a performance-based auditable Environmental Management System (EMS), each factory sets annual targets and undertakes projects to reduce consumption of water, electricity, gas, fuels and other resources. 

Some of the major projects undertaken so far include:

• The installation of a joint funded recycled water plant with the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) at Berkeley Vale, NSW. This plant, at full capacity, can save around 65 mega litres of water annually, equivalent to the annual usage of more than 400 households.
• The installation of a 5 kW solar PV panels in Carmel, WA. 
• The installation in Cooranbong, NSW of one natural gas fired boiler to replace three existing coal, LPG and diesel boilers.  This project is set to save more than 2,500 tonnes of CO2 annually.
  

Sanitarium is also in the final stages of developing a corporate environmental scorecard that will track improvements in water usage, energy usage, solids waste generation, and emissions.

“Our focus will continue to be on how we can make positive changes in these key environmental areas by reduce/re-use/recycle, as we make sustainable decisions to minimise our environmental impact now and in the future,” says Sanitarium’s Food, Environment and Science Manager Greg Gambrill.