L'Oréal - 2018 Registration Document

3 L’Oréal’s corporate social, environmental and societal responsibility PERFOR MANCE INDICATORS AND RESULTS

Industrial effluent 26 L’Oréal plants have their own effluent treatment plant. They use a range of technologies, including physical, chemical and biological processes adapted to the characteristics of the effluent and local discharge conditions. Equipment operation and effluent management are the sites’ responsibility, and are subject to specific procedures and instructions. An internal audit or self-assessment of the corresponding facility is organised and documented at least once each year. A self-monitoring system representative of effluent discharges has been established in each plant, and serves to monitor regulated and contractual parameters such as COD (chemical oxygen demand), BOD (biochemical oxygen demand), pH, the temperature of effluent and substances liable to disturb the operation of an internal or external effluent management facility. This self-monitoring is a tool for detecting the risk of overshooting, which helps anticipate non-compliance and initiate corrective actions. In 2018, total chemical oxygen demand for the Group’s effluent (in tonnes of COD) leaving the site fell by 36% as compared to 2005 and by 53% in grams per finished product, at 0.8g per finished product. L’Oréal is continuing to install on-site wastewater treatment facilities, such as in Poland, Russia and the United States for instance in 2018.

2018

Scope of industrial sites

2017

SO 2

(t)

4.0

2.0

VOC (t)

160 2.2*

171

Ozone depleting substances (t)

2.0 ;

The Statutory Auditors have expressed a reasonable assurance ; on this indicator.

Noise pollution L’Oréal’s industrial activities are not particularly noisy. The sites comply with the noise standards to which they are subject. Internal environmental reporting is one way in which to ensure monthly readings of any non-compliance on this issue. Provisions for environmental risks The amount of the provisions booked for environmental risks is not material. Two sites have set aside a provision for the treatment of their soil, and a third to cover the risk of accidental spills. Most of this provision corresponds to land which does not require any treatment for the activities that are currently carried out on the site (see note 13.3 to the consolidated financial statements). and preserving natural resources L’Oréal has set itself the major objective of fighting climate change and preserving natural resources in the overall exercise of its activity. All efforts are being made to achieve this objective in the sites where its activities are performed and across its entire value chain, from the search for renewable ingredients and the sustainable supply of raw materials to the transport of raw materials, their consumption and product end of life. L’Oréal is committed to continuously improving the impact of its products throughout their life cycle. On operated sites 3.3.1.3.1 As part of the Sharing Beauty With All programme, L’Oréal is committed to improving the environmental footprint of all operated sites. The Group strives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (1) , water consumption and waste generation, and to protect biodiversity. It is also committed to reducing the footprint of product transport, and no longer sending waste to landfill. Fighting climate change A/ As the cosmetics industry consumes little energy and has low CO 2 emissions compared with other sectors, L’Oréal is not subject to the CO 2 emission quotas provided for by European regulations, whether for industrial sites, administrative sites or research centres. However, L’Oréal, as a company that has been committed to the fight against climate change for many years, applies a particularly proactive policy for the reduction of its CO 2 emissions. Fighting climate change 3.3.1.3.

EFFLUENT QUALITY INDEX

2018

2005

- 53% (grams of COD per finished product)

2018

On the scope of industrial sites

2017

Accidental spills (m 3 )

1

0

1,146,648

1,205,836

Effluent after treatment (m 3 )

4,839

4,875

COD after treatment (t)

The Group’s air emissions, excluding greenhouse gases

Industrial sites have an inventory and mapping of air emissions, which is updated once a year. The operation and maintenance of air emission collection and treatment facilities are subject to specific procedures and instructions.

(1)

In the present Document, the Group’s performance in terms of CO 2

emissions is expressed in CO 2

equivalent, i.e. eq CO 2 .

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