Tetra Pak publishes sustainability report 2015

Tetra Pak has published its 2015 sustainability report, which highlights the company’s achievements in environmental performance, social responsibility and good governance over the past year.

Examples of Tetra Pak’s progress in sustainability includes:

• The Tetra Rex Bio-based carbon hit the shelves in January 2015 manufactured solely from materials derived from plants.
• In June, the Tetra Pak E3 was launched, a filling machine that uses electron beams, rather than hydrogen peroxide, to sterilise packaging material, which results in energy savings and reduced environmental impact.
• The company has made good progress on implementing a global operational health and safety (OHS) management system. The target is to achieve OHSAS 18001 certification for all of Tetra Pak manufacturing sites by the end of 2016. So far 50% have been certified, which is up from 42% in 2013.
• Tetra Pak maintained its support of Dairy Hub projects in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nicaragua and Sri Lanka in 2014 and began a new project in Senegal in early 2015. Through these projects, the company helps to secure long term supply of locally produced quality milk in developing countries. During the past year, as a result of Dairy Hubs, particular progress has been made in Bangladesh, where the dairy farmers average net monthly income has reached £161 (€226), up from £46-59 (€64-83) in 2012.
• The food for development team continued its support to governments and customers all over the world to implement school feeding programmes. In 2014, 66 million children, a record high number, received milk or other nutritious drink in Tetra Pak packages in food.
• During the first quarter of 2015, Tetra Pak’s Deeper in the Pyramid (DiP) unit launched more than 20 new products designed specifically for the low income consumer segment in over 10 countries, while increasing the number of packages sold by 12%, compared to the same period last year.

Dennis Jönsson, president and CEO, at Tetra Pak Group, says, “With the announcement of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability will be an area ever more integrated into the activities of companies worldwide. We are committed to working with our customers to meet the challenges that the UN has set out.”