Sustainability
Our approach to sustainability is focused on three, inter-connected areas – people, planet and product - with daily work to improve our impact and achieve our goals.
Invest in people
Our business model provides opportunities for women around the world to earn and learn, supporting them to build their own businesses and achieve economic freedom. We speak out about breast cancer and gender-based violence, raising awareness, explaining how to take action and fundraising for relevant organisations.
For our employed teams we’re committed to providing a supportive, fair and diverse working culture. This extends through our supply chain where we are working to protect human rights and championing progress for women.
Reduce environmental impacts
We continue to focus on reducing our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption, as well as increasing the use of renewable energy to reduce our carbon footprint. Having surpassed our 2020 target (with 53 percent GHG emissions reductions from 2005 baseline) on scopes 1&2, we are now working towards Science Based Targets. We have set ambitious Science Based targets for 2030, and work is underway to reduce the carbon emissions created by our business – from our factories and distribution network through to the carbon footprint of each product we develop.
Reducing our waste and water impacts
We sent zero operational waste to landfill since 2023 and continue to work on waste reduction and recycling programmes. This includes initiatives such as converting waste into energy and reusing wastewater sludge. We also strive to drive down water consumption in our operations with ongoing improvements in line with our annual targets to reduce water intensity.
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Improve the environmental performance of our products
We’re on an ambitious journey to reduce the environmental footprint of our packaging. We’re reducing use of virgin plastic and are aiming for 100% of our packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2030.
Responsible ingredient sourcing
Sourcing ingredients responsibly has always been important to us and we continue to strengthen our sourcing practices.
We’re working on transparency and traceability across all raw materials, with a focus on those ingredients that have particular social or environmental concerns. Read more in our Corporate Responsibility report here.
We’re tackling this in partnership with organisations such as Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI), which works to strengthen local health, education and women’s empowerment in mica communities in India and Action for Sustainable Derivatives (ASD), a collaboration that tackles environmental and social issues relating to palm oil and palm derivative supply chains. Projects include ASD’s Respect in Palm, which supports women palm workers in Indonesia, who may face gender-based violence through workplace training.
Making our packaging 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable
We’re making progress on our ambitions to make all of our packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2030. We’re increasing the amount of recycled plastic we use and decreasing the amount of packaging overall. More than 80% of our packaging is already recyclable, reusable or compostable, but we recognise that we still have more to do to reduce the environmental impact of our packaging.
We’ve already reduced virgin plastic content across many of our brands, including Avon Naturals, Advance Techniques and Avon Senses. In 2023, on average we used 34.5% less plastic in our Beauty+ product packaging.
