Built on stakeholder feedback, the plan defines the company’s new sustainability vision, commitments and more challenging targets as it seeks to grow its business while building a more sustainable tomorrow.
The report demonstrates how CCE is delivering against its 37 targets in each of its seven CRS focus areas:
In particular, it focuses on the two areas in which CCE intends to lead the industry, Energy and Climate Change and Sustainable Packaging and Recycling, and addresses how the company plans to innovate for the future. The report emphasises the importance of stakeholder engagement and collaboration and includes a range of questions posed to CCE by stakeholders in 2011.
John Brock, chairman and chief executive officer, said: “We have made important progress in the past year to reduce our water and carbon impacts while growing our business. We know that taking broader accountability across our value chain is the right thing to do, and to create a more sustainable tomorrow, we will work even more closely with customers, suppliers and other partners.”
Key 2011/2012 progress includes reducing carbon emissions from the manufacture, distribution and cooling of CCE’s products by 8.4% while growing volume by 3.5%, and reducing the company’s water use ratio by 13% since 2007.
In 2011, CCE announced a plastics recycling joint venture with ECO Plastics in Great Britain which, when operational, will enable the company to include 25% rPET in all its plastic packaging in Great Britain this year.
Report highlights include:
The full report can be accessed here.
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