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Environmental Value
Through our activities and our customers’ use of our products, we strive to affect agricultural sustainability positively. The environmental value we deliver can be measured through the eco-efficiency of our manufacturing operations, the effect of our products on agricultural sustainability, and our continuing efforts to improve our operations and the benefits our products provide.
Eco-Efficiency Data 2005
The eco-efficiency reporting method used here was developed in cooperation
with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. The system permits
year-to-year comparison of new data to baseline data from calendar year 1990.
Product data (for example, energy use and material consumption) are recorded
by total amounts and by environmental influence per unit of output. For purposes
of comparison with prior years, a constant product mix based on Monsanto’s
technical-grade chemical production as of calendar year 2005 is used. That
adjusts previous-year data so that changes in product mixes do not influence
the comparability of the year-to-year eco-efficiency indicators. Ozone-depleting
substances (ODS) are not graphed, because the total is too small to be statistically
significant.
