Merck is committed to designing, operating, and maintaining our processes and facilities in a manner that protects people and the environment. For the communities where we operate, the emissions, effluents and wastes from our facilities are an important environmental consideration. Our strategy for minimizing our environmental footprint focuses on reducing our demand for hazardous materials, preventing the generation of waste, and reusing or recycling materials. When other approaches are not practical, we apply additional controls and treatment technologies.

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Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA, and Schering-Plough Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ, USA, are now one company. We have combined our global operations under the name Merck & Co., Inc. We are working to update our corporate responsibility Web site to reflect our new, combined, global organization.