IFF relies on water for cooling, steam generation, feedstock processing, cleaning, among other requirements, but we continuously strive to increase our level of water efficiency. Similarly, we strive to lead our industry in eliminating waste through a comprehensive approach built on recovery, reuse and recycling.
IFF is committed to championing water stewardship by 2030, verifying zero waste to landfill (ZWL) for all our major manufacturing facilities and minimizing single-use plastics.
Championing water stewardship
Verify zero waste to landfill for all major manufacturing facilities
Minimize single-use plastics
IFF employees supply the passion and innovation to activate our environmental sustainability ambitions at the facility level. We have Green Teams at each of our manufacturing facilities, as well as many offices, creative centers and application laboratories around the world.
Our Remington, Indiana, U.S. site has found ways to limit the amount of waste generated during their manufacturing processes and to repurpose waste that is impossible to eliminate from production. The Team has reduced their waste by 32 metric tons annually by diverting from landfill a significant portion of byproducts from food manufacturing and selling it as animal feed to a nearby farm.
Since 2020, our Green Team at our Tilburg, Netherlands site has been re-imagining the concept of waste. Rather than sending plastic drums used during production to an incineration plant, they have executed a plastic drum recycling program that diverts waste from incineration. The program includes a drum cleaner and shredder to be able to return plastic back to the industry for re-use.
Our Philadelphia, PA, U.S. Green Team recently installed an air scrubber to control water loss during non-business hours (when no production was occurring), saving ~706K gallons of water per year.
Outside of our own operations, IFF’s Green Teams also look for ways to give back to our communities. In 2023, the Teams in both our Murcia Nutrafur and Ingrenat, Spain facilities partnered with their local Nature Reserve to help preserve a degraded area of the Carrascoy y El Valle Regional Park.
They helped clean debris and plant native vegetaion to help ecologically restore the local area.
Learn more about how we are taking bold climate action to protect our planet for future generations in our Do More Good Report.