Waste

Nestlé aims to reduce or recycle as much as possible and has developed initiatives to reduce packaging, helping our customers and consumers to reduce their waste. We are also working to reduce waste in all our offices, and have implemented recycling programmes across many of our sites. Since recycling began in our Croydon offices, we have almost halved the amount of waste going to landfill.

Nestlé in the UK & Ireland Target 2012: Zero food & packaging waste (from factories) to landfill.

Minimising Food Waste

The first and most important step in reducing food waste is improved customer forecasting. For any surplus produced, Nestlé works with charity FareShare to redistribute this quality food to vulnerable people in the community around the country. Nestlé provides the FareShare network with food ranging from pasta to coffee and cereals. In 2007, food from Nestlé provided 606,056 meals’ worth of food and 388 less tonnes of waste went to landfill (2,522 tonnes of CO2). Click here to find out more.

Packaged Bananas

Putting Waste to Work

Nestlé has been working with Digital Links since January 2008 and has provided more than 500 good quality redundant PCs and laptops to the charity for reuse. Digital Links collects redundant computers from companies, schools and other organisations in the UK, and refurbishes them for reuse in 20 countries in the developing world. http://www.digital–links.org/

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