Water Use

 

Kellogg is continually seeking ways to minimize our water use and our impacts on local water supplies in the communities in which we operate. Our water footprint assessments revealed that agriculture accounts for more than 95 percent of the water used during the lifecycles of several of our cereals. We also use water in our manufacturing facilities – for cleaning, process heating, cooling machinery, in wet filtration systems and as a raw ingredient in our products.

The figure at right shows that our water use per metric tonne of food produced has decreased by 7.4 percent since 2005. Many of our Kellogg facilities have made good progress in reducing their water usage. For example:

• Our Zanesville, Ohio, plant has decreased water use by 24 percent since 2005, thanks in part to better controls that manage water use in the wheat gluten cooking process.
• At our Manchester, England, facility, we installed a recirculating water system with an air-cooled chiller unit. This system will save 400,000 cubic meters of well water per year.