Tetra Pak releases 2022 sustainability report enabling transformation

Tetra Pak takes a proactive and pioneering approach to make sure cartons are collected, sorted and recycled so that they keep delivering value. Photo - Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak, a global food processing and packaging solutions visitor, released the 2022 Sustainability Report, jubilant the many ways the visitor has worked to protect food, people, and the planet in the past year. An annual tradition since 1999, this twelvemonth's report is especially poignant amid a global pandemic, while the earth'due south focus on the planet and the environment are being challenged.

Highlights from the global operations

• Continuing to ensure food safety and help customers maintain uninterrupted food supplies during the Covid-19 crunch.
• Working aslope customers worldwide to feed millions of children through schoolhouse feeding programs and heave milk supply from smallholder farmers through its Dairy Hubs. Sixty-8 meg children received milk or other nutritious products in Tetra Pak packages in schools.
• Pioneering Bonsucro Chain of Custody certification for plant-based polymers, a showtime in the food and drink manufacture, ensures full traceability.
• For the 4th year in a row, made CDP's A-Listing for leading efforts confronting climate change and protecting forests. Fifty billion Tetra Pak packages were recycled globally.

 In India, Tetra Pak continued to strengthen the drove and recycling ecosystem to ensure that cartons are finer recycled into useful products. This was done in shut collaboration with manufacture, central and state regime, drove and recycling partners, NGOs, and other stakeholders.

Highlights of Tetra Pak's work in India in 2019

• Over 80% of Tetra Pak packages sold in Republic of india at present display the FSC logo, certifying that the paperboard used in them is made from responsibly sourced wood
• According to a study done past The Energy and Resource Establish (TERI) across twenty cities in Republic of india, 1 in 2 cartons sold in the surveyed cities is recycled.
• Tetra Pak'due south collection network for used drinkable cartons expanded across 20 states and Union Territories, 29 cities, and 14 army cantonments supported by 29 drove partners.
• Strengthened AARC (Action Alliance for Recycling Beverage Cartons) to include 16 industry leaders in the field of juices, dairy, pharma, liquor, and packaging industry. AARC aims to double the drove and recycling of used paper cartons by 2025.
• Tetra Pak and RUR Greenlife celebrated x years of the 'Go Light-green with Tetra Pak' programme in Bombay – an initiative that encourages consumers to deposit used beverage cartons at any of the 240+ drops off points across Mumbai, helping them get recycled.
• Completed the first stage of 'Alag Karo Har Din Teen Bin', a multi-stakeholder Municipal solid waste management program, pivoted by Saahas, a non-profit organization, to plant and sustain segregation at source and develop capacities of the waste product collectors (formal and informal) to ensure high recycling rates in the National Capital Region
• As per a study past KPMG, the program generated a Social Return On Investment (SROI) of 2.66 in the year 2019-20, that is, for every Indian rupee of investment by the stakeholders, Rs 2.66 of the social value attributable to the stakeholders (majorly to the program) was created.
• Launched a new Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Public-Private Partnerships manner with the Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC), Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This helped aggrandize Tetra Pak's drove network to Uttar Pradesh.
• Launch of waste direction facility at Indian Regular army camp at Joshimath, Uttarakhand. This is Tetra Pak'southward 14th such facility in partnership with the Indian Regular army

"Sustainability has long been at the eye of our business concern strategy and our operations. It is embodied in our brand promise, which is brought to life by protecting food, protecting people and protecting the planet. As we reflect on final year, we must necessarily begin with the Covid-xix pandemic, an unprecedented event that has affected, and continues to affect, communities worldwide. In this context, our commitment to protecting what'south good has never been more vital – and our sense of purpose has never been stronger," explained Ashutosh Manohar, director, Tetra Pak South asia.

Tetra Pak's sustainability approach encompasses the entire value concatenation — including environmental, social, and economic challenges. The company has developed collection and recycling infrastructure in all markets, investing 23 1000000 euros betwixt 2022 and 2019. It has likewise helped increment the number of facilities that recycle drinkable cartons worldwide from 40 in 2002 to more 170 today. In India, by September 2020, Tetra Pak'southward drove network has expanded to cover 22 states and Union Territories, supported by xxx collection partners and four different recyclers beyond the country.

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