P&G...Impacting Taicang, China...

Proctor and Gamble, or P&G to most of us, has one of their newest factories in Taicang China. This facility is designed to:

• Minimize water consumption while maximizing water re-use by recovering steam condensate for domestic water needs and harvesting rainwater to replenish on-site landscaping water.

Funny story though... told to me by a senior member of P&G's Sustainability Team... It seems that the Taicang facility takes in water from the river for use in process and manufacturing, and as part of their corporate goals they have been told to use less water and to recycle it, after treatment, back to the river so that there is near zero impact on the environment.

The Facilities Team at Taicang have complained...they don't know why they should use less water. You see P&G cleans the water taken in before they use it, then they treat it before they put it back in the river. In fact the water that they put back into the river is cleaner than the water drawn in for use in production processes, and because they reclaim it in their processes before treatment and recycling...they put back almost as much as they use, but the water that they put back is cleaner than the river water and therefore they don't understand why they should use less. The insiders think they are helping the environment by using and returning the P&G process water...

Hard to argue...GO P&G!