Nestlé pledges to achieve zero waste in Europe by 2020
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Nestlé has announced it will achieve zero waste in all of its 150 European
factories by 2020.
This means that no factory waste will go to landfill or be incinerated without
energy being recovered from the process.
"The decision to achieve zero waste illustrates Nestlé's commitment to
environmentally sustainable business practices," said Laurent Freixe, Nestlé
Executive Vice-President and Zone Director for Europe.
"We already have over 25 factories in Europe that do not dispose of waste into
the environment," he added.
"By relentlessly eliminating all sources of waste, or by recycling or recovering
energy from unavoidable residues, I am convinced we can achieve the same for all
our European operations," Mr Freixe said.
Cleaning up
Nestlé's environmental sustainability pledge was made at a European Policy
Centre event on food sustainability in Brussels.
Already, Nestlé's has achieved zero waste in all of its factories in the United
Kingdom and Switzerland.
The first factory to reduce the waste generated was the KitKat and Aero
confectionery factory in the UK city of York in 2011.
By the end of 2012, Nestlé had achieved zero waste status in 39 of its 468
factories worldwide.
Nestlé is looking to eliminate waste at every level of its operations.
Recycling coffee
Since its foundation, more than 140 years ago, the company has sought to avoid
food waste, beginning by transforming perishable raw materials - such as milk,
coffee beans and cocoa - into safe, value-added food products.
Its instant coffee brand Nescafé, for example, was invented 75 years ago as a
way of using up coffee beans sitting unsold in warehouses in Brazil.
Today, Nestlé uses spent coffee grounds as a source of renewable energy in more
than 20 of its Nescafé factories and aims to extend this practice to all Nescafé
factories worldwide.
Last month, Nestlé was named the leading food products company in the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index with a score of 88%, double the industry average.
The company also achieved the maximum score for the second year running in the
CDP 'Climate Disclosure Leadership Index', and the CDP 'Climate Performance
Leadership Index'.
Related information:
Waste and recovery at Nestlé
http://www.nestle.com/csv/environmental-sustainability/waste-recovery
Environmental sustainability at Nestlé
http://www.nestle.com/csv/environmental-sustainability
Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
http://www.sustainability-indices.com/
CDP Global 500 Climate Change Report 2013
https://www.cdproject.net/CDPResults/CDP-Global-500-Climate-Change-Report-
2013.pdf
Read more stories about Nestlé and environmental sustainability:
Nestlé retains top slot on Oxfam sustainability scorecard
http://www.nestle.com/Media/NewsAndFeatures/Nestle-keeps-Oxfam-scorecard-top-
slot
Nestlé tops leading sustainability indices
http://www.nestle.com/Media/NewsAndFeatures/Nestle-tops-leading-sustainability-
indices
Slideshow: Nestlé supports World Environment Day campaign to avoid food waste
http://www.nestle.com/Media/NewsAndFeatures/World-Environment-Day-2013
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