Our water consumption is a mixture of well extracted and mains supply. We use water for hide washing, gel production and casing production. Our focus is on reducing water use, and we are investigating opportunities to re-use water in process after filtration and chemical treatment, but potable water is required in food production processes, which limits our water recycling capabilities.
Devro is committed to complying with all legal requirements relating to water use, consumption and site-specific customer and certification requirements and to voluntarily disclose water data, risks and impacts via the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) water questionnaire.
Water use is another key area where we can reduce our impact on the environment. We aim to limit our use of this important resource wherever possible and have already seen reductions in our water intensity through water recycling initiatives and process improvements. We are focused on reducing our water intake in environments that are the most water stressed to avoid causing additional pressure in these areas.
Our water targets begin with a freshwater use intensity reduction of 20% by 2025 against our 2020 baseline. We will then work towards ensuring an absolute reduction in freshwater usage of 20% by 2030 against a 2020 baseline, increasing this to 50% by 2050.
