We apply the criteria and values of sustainability in our daily activities as a means of defining, evaluating and achieving our objectives:

We were one of the first organisations invited to join the Pact for a Circular Economy, as a key player in the pharmaceutical sector to move towards a more resource-efficient society through the promotion of eco-design and recycling.

In addition, each year we publish our Sustainability Report to publicise our environmental, social and good governance performance. In this way, we maintain our commitment to transparency towards our stakeholders.

Our activity is aligned with 8 of the 17 SDGs of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, which are related to health and the environment.

With the involvement of the entire pharmaceutical sector, we have launched initiatives to contribute to the achievement of the following SDGs:

We are firmly committed to a sustainable model of production and consumption that minimises waste and reuses it as a new resource.

We therefore promote eco-design to make medicine packaging increasingly lighter, less polluting and more easily recyclable.

Furthermore, once they reach the end of their useful life, the materials of these packages are kept within the economy through recycling, and the medicine residues are recovered energetically, thus creating added value.

In 2009 we formalised our membership of the UN Global Compact, the world's largest corporate citizenship initiative. Three years later, we were elected to the Executive Committee of the United Nations Global Compact Spain.

Throughout these years, many public and private organisations have been interested in our system of operation, requesting our collaboration for the implementation of a similar model in their countries. For this reason, in 2015 we promoted the creation of the Red Iberoamericana de Programas Posconsumo de Medicamentos (RIPPM)s (RIPPM).

This network enables the exchange of experiences in the management of waste medicines and their packaging between the different countries that make up Ibero-America. Through it, the collection of expired, partially consumed or deteriorated medicines is promoted as a means of caring for the environment and human health and contributing to eradicating counterfeiting of these products.

Furthermore, in order to organise activities and actions to promote awareness of best practices in the management of expired or unused medicines, RIPPM has created the Plataforma Posconsumo de Medicamentos (PPM).

Currently, RIPPM is composed of four programmes: Corporación Punto Azul (Colombia), SINGREM (Mexico), VALORMED (Portugal) and SIGRE (Spain).

We are committed to education as a necessary pillar to achieve an increasingly sustainable society. For this reason, we have launched various initiatives so that students of all ages are aware of the environmental and health importance of recycling medicines.