International consumer products company Unilever has eliminated the hazardous waste that it sends to landfill across sites in over 70 countries.

The company has managed to eradicate dangerous waste from over 600 of its sites, reports Logistics Manager.

Speaking on its achievement, Unilever said that it managed the feat by reducing, reusing, recovering and recycling, which is what the company calls its R approach.

By using this approach, the company feels that it has shown that waste can be a helpful resource.

Unilever chief supply chain officer Pier Luigi Sigismondi said: "The global challenge of a growing population relying on limited resources is very real."

The company made changes by "converting factory waste to building materials, to composting food waste from staff cafeterias", creating hundreds of jobs at the company and saving it €200 million (£155 million).

Planning on making further improvements, Unilever is working with value-chain platform 2degrees in an effort to bring organisations together to support the widespread zero waste model, which will go live in summer of this year.