We have expanded efforts and are continuing to conserve workplace materials and supplies through an employee-led program which stress the "Three Rs of Conservation" - Reduce, Re-use and Recycle. Office paper, machine oil and wooden pallets are just a few of the materials being reduced, re-used and recycled. More than 85% of our production by-products and recyclables are collected for reprocessing and re-use off-site.

We continue to contribute to energy conservation with practices such as: utilising waste heat for pre-heating water and recovering clean, condensed steam as very hot water for boiler re-use; continuing to install energy efficient lighting; and investigating more efficient motor operation. The Utilities Management Team meets regularly and since 2000, a formal monitoring process has been established to measure and implement efficiency improvements in electricity, natural gas and water usage. The Kellogg Botany plant can report significant improvements in water and energy usage, conserving valuable resources in a dry continent and contributing to greenhouse gas reductions.

One of the most notable improvements has been the reduction in water use, which in 2002 dropped by 500,000 litres per day. To give you an idea of this amount, compare it to the volume of water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool, which contains 1 million litres. The average household comprising 4 people uses approximately 700 to 900 litres daily.

In the same period, electricity use has been reduced by 8% and to date stands at an 18% reduction per tonne of food produced.

These efforts are making our environmentally sound operation even friendlier to the environment. Kellogg and its employees wouldn't have it any other way.