Food processing and packaging company Tetra Pak® has released its Sustainability Update 2014.

Reflecting on the progress of 2013, the report outlined that:

• more than 64 million school children received milk or other nutritious drinks in Tetra Pak packages (for example, Tetra Pak’s involvement in a school milk programme in Myanmar, launched in June 2013, will enable 45,000 school children to receive packaged milk for three years);
• Tetra Pak and Tetra Laval Food for Development expanded joint activities on Dairy Hubs. In partnership with PRAN Dairy Ltd, two Dairy Hubs were set up in Bangladesh as collection stations with testing and cooling facilities, while at the same time serving as training centres for the local farmers;
• the company delivered 1.1 billion packages featuring bio-based caps (made from plastic derived from sugar cane) to customers in 2013, nearly doubling the number sold the previous year; and
• processing and packaging innovations supported a further reduction of food waste. Examples include the introduction of Tetra Alcross® RO Lite in 2013, which provided small and medium-sized cheese producers with a filtration solution that extracts value out of whey, a by-product of cheese manufacturing that was dumped as food waste in the past.

The 2013 results, which have been audited and validated by independent external consultants, showed that the company is making steady progress towards its 2020 targets – to cap climate impact across the value chain to 2010 levels, despite business growth.

Dennis Jönsson, President and CEO of the Tetra Pak Group, said: “The Tetra Pak brand is founded on a promise: PROTECT WHAT’S GOOD. At its core, that’s about protecting food … which has long lain at the very heart of our business agenda. But it goes further. It is also about protecting people: our employees, the communities in which we operate, and society as a whole. And it is about protecting futures; by developing the products and services that will support the future business growth of our customers, and by acting and operating in ways that best protect the future of our planet.

“Tetra Pak produces the Sustainability Update on an annual basis to explain how we are delivering on that promise.”

Read the full Tetra Pak Sustainability Update 2014.