How To Minimise Environmental Impact From The Pharmaceutical Industry

As some of the biggest companies in the world, it is essential that the Pharmaceutical giants play their part in reducing their environmental impact. When you consider how many different products these huge companies are responsible for making, even a ten percent reduction in their carbon footprint could have a profound effect on the environment worldwide.

Luckily most of these companies are embracing the issue and coming up with some innovative and clever ideas to tackle the problem. In an ideal world, every company would get to the perfect place of being carbon neutral, but will never happen overnight. However, each step towards that goal is both relevant and beneficial to the world as a whole, and below we look at some of the solutions that various companies and us as consumers can and have implemented so far.

• Improving product packaging – In recent years the packaging that your deodorants or other products are supplied in have been changed adapted and compressed, to provide the same volume of product in half the amount of packaging. Let’s pretend that there are 10 billion cans of deodorant sold every year, if the packaging is reduced by twenty-five percent that is a massive overall reduction. Some good examples of smaller more environmentally friendly packaging can be seen at the Diet Pill Resource Website.

• Investing in renewable energy at the manufacturing stage – As well as the ingredients needed to create their medicines or cosmetics, perhaps the biggest hit to the environment is caused by the manufacturing process. To keep the factory running on electricity alone requires a lot of raw materials, so by investing in renewable energy, and using waste products from the manufacturing process as raw material for energy production, the pharmaceutical industry can take a huge step towards becoming carbon neutral.

• Consumers Can Vote With Their Wallets And Voices – Passionate users can flex their financial muscle and make decisions on whom they buy from depending on a company’s environmental decisions. An excellent example of how this was put into practice very successfully was by animal lovers who boycotted and protested against animal testing of cosmetics. By highlighting the issues, and electing to change their brands of choice deliberately, consumers were able to exert influence and alter decisions made by the various companies concerned. It could even be argued that in today’s social media climate, it is even easier to expose a business via the use of an intelligent and concerted campaign than it has ever been before.

The environmental landscape is changing at a faster pace than ever before, but then again so is the knowledge and understanding of the problem worldwide. The internet spreads information everywhere in seconds, and companies understand just how important it is for them to be seen as environmentally friendly. This is a huge step forward for environmental activists, and rather than standing back and applauding the progress made, now is the time to push even harder.

Educate your friends and family, research the various companies you currently buy from and consider switching your purchases to businesses that have already achieved carbon neutral status. It is only by taking constant and dedicated action that we can force these big companies to change direction and work towards a better and safer environment for ourselves and our future generations.

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