Nestlé has announced it will achieve zero waste in all of its 150 European factories by 2020.
This means that no factory waste will go to landfill or be incinerated without energy being recovered from the process.
“The decision to achieve zero waste illustrates Nestlé’s commitment to environmentally sustainable business practices,” said Laurent Freixe, Nestlé Executive Vice-President and Zone Director for Europe.
“We already have over 25 factories in Europe that do not dispose of waste into the environment,” he added.
“By relentlessly eliminating all sources of waste, or by recycling or recovering energy from unavoidable residues, I am convinced we can achieve the same for all our European operations,” Mr Freixe said.
Already, Nestlé’s has achieved zero waste in all of its factories in the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
The first factory to reduce the waste generated was the KitKat and Aero confectionery factory in the UK city of York in 2011.
By the end of 2012, Nestlé had achieved zero waste status in 39 of its 468 factories worldwide.
Nestlé is looking to eliminate waste at every level of its operations.
