Food and drink manufacturers pledge to cut packaging and food waste
Members of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) committed to greatly reducing packaging and food waste by 2010. The announcement was made with the launch of an environmental ambition targeting the five areas where food and drink manufacturers feel they can have the biggest impact:
• achieve a 20% absolute reduction in CO2 emissions by 2010 compared to 1990
and to show leadership nationally and internationally by aspiring to a 30% reduction by 2020;
• send zero food and packaging waste to landfill from 2015;
• make a significant contribution to WRAP’s work to achieve an absolute reduction
• achieve significant reductions in water use and contribute to an industry-wide • send zero food and packaging waste to landfill from 2015;
• make a significant contribution to WRAP’s work to achieve an absolute reduction
in the level of packaging reaching households by 2010 compared to 2005. And provide more advice to consumers on how best to recycle or otherwise recover used packaging;
absolute target to reduce water use by 20% by 2020 compared to 2007; and
• embed environmental standards in our transport practices, including our contracts with hauliers as they fall for renewal, to achieve fewer and friendlier food transport miles. And contribute to an absolute target for the food chain to reduce its environmental and social impacts by 20% by 2012 compared to 2002.
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