Environmental Management Progress & Metrics - Altria

As the parent of companies that depend on our planet’s natural resources, Altria Group has set a goal to reduce the environmental impact of our businesses and to promote the sustainability of the natural resources on which they depend.


Progress & Metrics

Our journey toward environmental sustainability really began in 2004 when Philip Morris USA, our largest operating company, set goals for reducing the impact of its facilities and operations. Accounting for acquisitions and consolidations, between 2004 and 2011 the companies making up Altria today – using PM USA performance as a baseline – achieved the following cumulative results:

  • reduced energy use by 30 percent;
  • reduced Greenhouse Gas emissions by 34 percent;
  • reduced waste landfilled by 87 percent;
  • increased percentage of waste recycled or put to beneficial reuse from 23 percent to 91 percent; and
  • reduced PM USA wastewater nutrient discharges at its Park 500 facility by 81 percent.

 

In 2008, Altria established five-year goals to reduce the company’s environmental impact; most of these goals were achieved before the 2013 target date. Our companies are currently in the process of establishing new long-term goals for reducing the company’s environment footprint in the following areas

  • reduce energy use;
  • reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 Greenhouse Gas emissions;
  • reduce water use;
  • recycle or beneficially reuse facility waste; and
  • reduce packaging material.

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT EVOLUTION AT ALTRIA

2011

  • Assessed new long-term goals for Altria and its companies
  • Environmental sustainability governance processes evolved with new cross-functional leadership and working teams
  • Environmental Management System expanded to include wine business

2010

  • Environmental Management System implemented across tobacco companies
  • New Environmental Metrics Information System developed for emission data reporting
  • Established process for managing, evaluating, prioritizing and tracking environmental sustainability initiatives

2009

  • Altria's tobacco companies established five-year footprint reduction goal
  • Environmental Sustainability Teams established

2008

  • Philip Morris USA achieved five-year footprint reduction goals
  • Energy Use
    Energy Use
  • Greenhouse Gas Emission Equivalents
    Greenhouse Gas Emission Equivalents
  • Water Use - Facilities
    Water Use - Facilities
  • Water use - Vineyards
    Water use - Vineyards
  • Solid Waste
    Solid Waste

 

Altria’s 2010 environmental data has been restated from last year’s report to reflect full implementation of Altria’s Environmental Management Information System and also restates energy use based on a supplier’s corrections to billing cycles.

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