LOREAL_Registration_Document_2017

L'Oréal’s corporate social, environmental and societal responsibility* THE SHARING BEAUTY WITH ALL PROGRAMME

As at the end 2017, 11 of the Group's plants have recycling facilities of this kind, forerunners in the cosmetics industry, which enable them to reuse water. The Group is continuing to deploy these technologies on its production sites. For some plants, the volume of recycled water covers more than 50% of their utility water requirements. GOING FURTHER TO PRESERVE NATURAL WATER RESOURCES: THE “ DRY FACTORY ” CONCEPT The Dry Factory concept involves only using town mains water for human consumption and for producing high quality water used in product manufacture; with the water required for industrial processes (cleaning equipment, services, etc .) being 100% reused or recycled continuously on-site. In 2017, the Dry Factory concept was implemented for the first time by the plant at Burgos in Spain: the improvements to industrial processes have s contributed to an 80% reduction in water requirements compared with 2005; a recycling system has been introduced: industrial s wastewater, after pre-treatment in the on-site wastewater treatment plant, is reprocessed using different technologies (multi-layered filters, nanofiltration, etc. ) in order to extract very high quality water. This is then used continuously to clean production tools and services as a replacement for town mains water.

Total water consumption in the plants and distribution centres was 2,216 ; thousand m 3 in 2017, representing a 2% increase in absolute value as compared to 2016, and a 1% decrease with regard to production (l/FP). Treatment of industrial wastewater Approximately half of L’Oréal’s plants have their own wastewater treatment plants, which are essential prerequisites for recycling. These use a range of methods, including physical, chemical and biological processes, adapted to the characteristics of the wastewater and local discharge conditions. In 2017, total chemical oxygen demand for the Group’s wastewater (in tonnes of COD), after on-site treatment has fallen by 36% as compared to a 2005 baseline. It amounts to 0.8 g of COD per finished product, representing a decrease of 52% compared with 2005. L’Oréal is continuing to install on-site wastewater treatment facilities, such as, for example, the new facility installed in Kenya in 2017.

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2017 results WASTEWATER QUALITY INDEX

2017

2005

2017 results WATER CONSUMPTION

-52% (grams of COD per finished product)

2017

2016

Accidental spills (m 3 )

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1

Wastewater after treatment (m 3 )

1,128,495 1,146,648

COD (tonnes)

4,562

4,839

An accidental spill in the Rambouillet plant occurred during the manufacture of a shampoo: a small amount of foam was vented through a roof vent. Rain caused it to run into a ditch alongside the plant.

2017

2005

-48% (in litres per finished product)

; The Statutory Auditors have expressed a reasonable assurance with regard to this indicator.

REGISTRATION DOCUMENT / L'ORÉAL 2017

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