A team of volunteers from Nestlé Dublin collected more than 30kg of litter on Dollymount Strand as part of An Taisce’s Clean Coasts programme.
The annual beach clean further enhances Nestlé’s efforts to highlight the need for action on climate change and to work together to improve the local environment.
More than 40 Nestlé colleagues armed with litter pickers and bin bags collected all types of litter along the beach, including plastic wrappers, cans, bottles, discarded material and laughing gas canisters.
Kieran Conroy, Country Manager at Nestlé Ireland said, “At Nestlé, being a force for good is central to what we do. We are pleased to partner with An Taisce as part of its Clean Coasts programme and for the team to invest time and effort into supporting the ongoing work to protect and enhance our precious coastal areas. This year marks the fourth annual beach clean for the Nestlé Dublin team and we estimate to date we have collected more than 200kg of rubbish from our beaches, helping to make a positive impact within our coastal communities.”
The beach clean-ups are part of the Nestlé Cares programme, which facilitates up to 120,000 hours of volunteering every year from its Ireland and UK employees.
As well as encouraging colleagues to volunteer their time and act on climate change, Nestlé continues to work towards reducing the use of virgin plastic by one third by 2025 and is committed to making all its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2050. This includes the introduction of KitKat wrappers made with 80% recycled material, which will eliminate more than three billion pieces of packaging from its supply chain.
Nestlé also remains focussed on achieving a 20% absolute reduction in global carbon emissions by 2025, using grid-supplied renewable energy, wind power, biomass and hydropower at its factories and offices – all of which run on 100% renewable electricity – and is moving away from petrol and diesel-powered vans and trucks.