Environmental Performance: 2011 Highlights
 Energy & Emissions
- ADM committed to achieving, by 2020, 15 percent reductions in energy use and emissions from 2010 levels on a per-unit-of-production basis.
- The company continued to make progress toward reducing emissions at major U.S. processing plants as part of a 2003 agreement with the U.S. government and several state governments. ADM’s corn processing facilities reduced energy use 41 percent on a per-unit-of-production basis between 2001 and 2011, while criteria emissions – including those of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carbon monoxide, particulate matter and sulfur dioxide – have fallen 70 percent since 2002, largely through reductions in VOC emissions.
- The company’s global oilseed crushing and refining operations reduced energy use by 4 percent in both 2010 and 2011, for a total savings of about 1 million megawatt hours.
- We continued to advance the development and implementation of a global Environmental Management System and a complementary Environmental Management Information System. When fully implemented, these systems will enhance ADM’s environmental management, risk mitigation, and stewardship programs. In addition, a component of these systems will enable the company to monitor, track and report companywide energy and emissions performance.
- ADM continued to help advance two major U.S. carbon capture and sequestration research and demonstration projects at our Decatur, Illinois, corn processing complex.
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Water
- ADM committed to achieving, by 2020, a 15 percent reduction in water use from 2010 levels on a per-unit-of-production basis.
- The company finished collecting one full year of water consumption and discharge data from the approximately 120 plants responsible for up to 99 percent of ADM’s overall water use.
- Once this data is verified and validated, it will be used to develop water-management plans for each of these facilities — plans designed to enable the company to reach its 2020 target.
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Waste Management
- ADM committed to achieving, by 2020, a 15 percent reduction in waste from 2010 levels on a per-unit-of-production basis.
- The company completed a year-long project at eight North American processing facilities to assess the effectiveness of a new waste-management standard. The results will enable ADM to refine and implement a global standard by the end of the 2012 fiscal year.
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