Food and Beverage Manufacturing

Reduce emissions from packaging

Cut product emissions by rethinking your packaging, enhancing your brand reputation customer unlocking cost savings.

This set of actions forms part of the Food and Beverage Manufacturing action checklist.

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Key steps for SMEs to take

1. Assess

Assess your current packaging for carbon footprint and inefficiencies.

2. Redesign

Redesign packaging to reduce packaging use and provide cost savings.

3. Engage suppliers

Engage suppliers to find lower emissions intensity packaging materials.

4. Communicate

Communicate proactively with customers on your new packaging and associated impacts.

5. Formalize

Formalize your company’s policy on sustainable packaging.

Examples of SME actions

Minimise material use by optimizing packaging and product design.

Change out packaging materials, for lower emissions options like post-consumer recycled fiber or films, recyclable and recycled materials (e.g. glass, aluminum), lightweight alternatives (e.g. wax coatings), or other innovative packaging solutions (e.g. Tetra Pak).

Provide clear, consistent, and accurate labelling to promote recycling.

Collaborate with retailers to implement refill and reuse systems, ensuring they deliver better environmental outcomes based on life cycle assessments.