Leading the sustainability transformation
With a world-leading position in food processing and packaging, backed by more than 70 years of trusted experience, we aim to lead the sustainability transformation within the industry, recognising the interconnectedness of five focus areas: Food systems (which is related to protecting food), Climate, Circularity and Nature (which connect to protecting the planet) and finally Social Sustainability (which links to protecting people).
Food systems lie at the heart of this model. Given our business model and position in the value chain, we believe that we have a role to play in helping to feed a growing global population while minimising food loss and waste, reducing climate impact, protecting biodiversity and promoting circularity – while respecting human rights across our own operations and the value chain.
By constantly innovating to develop our solutions – both in food and beverage packaging and processing – we can further support food availability, safety, and reduce food loss and waste without compromising the health of our planet.
Responsible sourcing practices and strategic collaborations help us to conserve and restore biodiversity, mitigate and adapt to climate change and contribute to global water resilience.
We are working to decarbonise1 our value chain – including sourcing, our own operations and our products – to help mitigate climate change.
By designing recyclable food and beverage packaging, which uses recycled and renewable materials, and expanding collection and recycling to keep materials in use and out of landfills, we also support the development of circular solutions.
Food. People. Planet.
Contributing to the global agenda
Our approach to sustainability has always been driven by our purpose. We support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and have a long-term commitment to the UN Global Compact and its ten principles.
Sustainability highlights
Below are some of our 2022 sustainability highlights. For the full story, see our latest Sustainability Report. www.tetrapak.com/sustainability/sustainability-updates
1) Our decarbonisation efforts focus on avoiding and mitigating GHG emissions correlated to our products and company, and carbon compensation to balance unavoidable residual emissions through nature-based solutions and other initiatives.
2) CDP is a not-for-profit that runs a global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. www.cdp.net/en/
3) Tetra Pak’s trajectory towards net-zero emission across its own operations by 2030, and across the value chain by 2050, builds on a combination of reduction and mitigation of emissions in own operations as well as customers’ use of Tetra Pak’s products, material suppliers' emissions, and compensation of residual emissions initially via the company’s land restoration project.
4) SBTi’s Corporate Net-Zero Standard is the world’s first framework for corporate net-zero target setting in line with climate science. This includes guidance, criteria and recommendations companies need to set science-based net-zero targets consistent with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C.
5) This means creating carton packages that are fully made of renewable or recycled materials which are responsibly sourced, thereby helping to protect and restore our planet's climate, resources, and biodiversity; contributing towards carbon-neutral production and distribution; are convenient and safe, therefore helping to enable a resilient food system; and are fully recyclable.