Kodak is the world's foremost imaging innovator, providing leading products and services to healthcare and the photographic and graphic communications markets. With annual sales of more than $14 billion, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on helping people better use meaningful images and information in their life and work. Consumers use Kodak's system of digital and traditional image capture products and services to take, print and share their pictures anytime, anywhere. Businesses effectively communicate with customers worldwide using Kodak solutions for prepress, conventional, and digital printing and document imaging. Creative Professionals rely on Kodak technology to uniquely tell their story through moving or still images.
Kodak's Waste Minimization Goal
As part of its Responsible Growth Program, Kodak established a set of worldwide health, safety and environment goals designed to reduce emissions, conserve resources, and enhance the company's product stewardship and employee safety. As part of this program, Kodak established a worldwide goal to reduce methylene chloride emissions by 35 percent. Methylene chloride is widely used as a solvent in traditional film manufacturing and greatly contributes to Kodak's air emissions.
Source Reduction, Recycling and Recovery Alternatives Explored
Both process improvements and procedural improvements were considered, including improvements to methylene chloride recovery, machine speed and machine pressure, tracking and testing for leaks, and startup procedure.
Waste Minimization Results
Eastman Kodak Company's aggressive five-year goals are being achieved well ahead of schedule. Kodak has exceeded the 35 percent reduction goal with an overall 52 percent reduction of methylene chloride emissions. Between 2002 and 2006, manufacturing in
