Group policy

Our business and communities depend on the sustainable consumption of natural resources and protection of the environment and biodiversity. We will work to improve the life cycle and circularity impacts of our products and supply chain.

Risks & opportunities

The key risks and opportunities associated with resources and environment are summarized in the table of materiality page (Materiality, Risk, Opportunity). While these are largely common across the consolidated group, individual PCGs do have some different focus areas and action priorities that reflect the local maturity of their improvement journeys.

Improvement & performance

Waste generated, waste recovered, water withdrawn, and water consumed all increased during the year. A significant contributor to these performance changes were the European acquisitions of Cromology and JUB within DuluxGroup, while other significant individual factors within each PCG also contributed.
Total waste generated increased 43% to 15.9 kilograms per tonne (kg/t), while the hazardous waste proportion decreased 4 percentage points (pp) to 33%. Waste recovered (recycled, reused) increased 43% to 6.3 kilograms per tonne (kg/t), which is equivalent to 42% of the total waste generated, an increase of 1 pp. The waste recovered performance excludes Cromology, where data is not currently available. Overall, these waste performance changes were primarily driven by the Cromology and JUB acquisitions, inclusion of previously unreported non-hazardous waste for NIPSEA China, and increased waste in DuluxGroup Pacific due to clean-up from the major flooding event at the Dulux Rocklea plant.
Water withdrawal increased 7% to 0.58 kiloliters per tonne (kL/t), while water consumed increased 8% to 0.39 kL/t. These performance changes were primarily driven by the Cromology and JUB acquisitions, changes in production mix for NIPSEA Group, and increased consumption in DuluxGroup Pacific due to clean-up activities following the major flooding event at the Dulux Rocklea plant.

Hazardous waste generated

Percentage of total waste generated

（%）

* The scope of coverage: Japan Group, NIPSEA Group, DuluxGroup (including Cromology and JUB beginning in FY2022), Dunn-Edwards (beginning in FY2020)

Waste recovered (recycled, reused)

■ Waste recovered (left axis) Percentage of total waste generated (right axis)

（kg/t）

（%）

* The scope of coverage: Japan Group, NIPSEA Group, DuluxGroup (excluding Cromology and including JUB beginning in FY2022), Dunn-Edwards (beginning in FY2020)<

Water consumed

（kl/t）

* The scope of coverage: Japan Group, NIPSEA Group, DuluxGroup (including Cromology and JUB beginning in FY2022), Dunn-Edwards (beginning in FY2020)

Performance

2022 performance and changes versus the prior year for individual PCGs are summarized in the following table, together with the key improvement priorities for the year.

Performance by Partner Company Group (PCG)

* Businesses were acquired in 2022, hence no prior year comparison is available for performance metrics.