Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness Rural development Water
Environmental
sustainability
Human rights
and compliance
Our
people
Materials G4-DMA, Energy G4-DMA, Biodiversity G4-DMA, Emissions G4-DMA, Effluents and waste G4-DMA, Products and services G4-DMA, G4-EN27, G4-EN31
• The new Nescafé Café Menu cappuccino pack has reduced
the carton weight by 21% compared to our previous pack
– the equivalent of 14% fewer lorries on the road.
Identifying and addressing
environmental hotspots
Our objective
Nespresso: the Positive Cup
The Positive Cup, Nespresso’s sustainability strategy,
covers:
100% sustainably sourced coffee
• Source 100% of our permanent range of Grand Cru
coffees sustainably through the Nespresso’s AAA
Sustainable Quality Program;
• Expand the AAA Sustainable Quality Program in
Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan; and
• Pursue innovative solutions to farmer welfare.
100% sustainably managed aluminium
• Expand the capacity to collect used aluminium
capsules to 100% wherever the company does
business, and increase recycling rates;
• Source 100% of virgin aluminium capsule material
compliant with the new Aluminium Stewardship
Initiative (ASI) standard; and
• Recycle Nespresso capsules collected by the company
into new ones.
100% carbon-efficient operations
• Further reduce by 10% the company’s carbon
footprint; and
• Increase farm resilience to climate change.
As part of this holistic approach, life-cycle assessments
of its products are used to calculate their environmental
performance.
Read more about sustainable coffee sourcing, sustainable
aluminium sourcing, use and disposal; and carbon-efficient
operations.
By 2017 – Identify or update and address the
sustainability hotspots for 15 product categories.
We share the data from our LCAs internally through the Nestlé
Category Sustainability Profiles. These profiles summarise a
category’s environmental ‘hotspots’ – areas of significant impact,
based on environmental indicators including GHG emissions and
water use – and outline how we are addressing them to improve
environmental performance along the value chain.
In 2015, we completed LCAs for all our product categories,
and established and documented Nestlé Category
Sustainability Profiles for 15 categories.
Sustainability by Design
All our new products undergo an environmental sustainability
assessment where relevant, using our LCA-based ecodesign
tool EcodEX (Ecodesign for Sustainable Product Development
and Introduction). This tool enables product development teams
to assess the environmental performance of a product faster
and much earlier in the design process. Using five
environmental impact indicators, EcodEX allows different
scenarios to be compared using data specific to the food and
beverage industry. It can be used to assess the overall
environmental impacts of a packed food product along the value
chain, from the sourcing of raw materials right through to the
end of life. EcodEX is now used in 30 (100% of in-scope) R&D
locations – this represents 96% of the whole R&D organisation.
During 2014 and 2015, we also used EcodEX to run
environmental assessment studies for our main products in
the Swiss market, to identify areas with a high environmental
impact and to inform action improvement plans. The work
extended the application of EcodEX beyond R&D, with a
decision to carry out a more detailed study on two specific
applications. It will also act as a pilot to explore how EcodEX
could be used to provide the basis for environmental claims,
which will include a process for an external peer review of the
scope and the results of the analysis.
By the end of 2015, we had evaluated 6174 projects 4 and
17 724 scenarios 5 using PIQET, EcodEX and the GEF (Global
Environmental Footprint) ecodesign tool, developed and used
exclusively by Nestlé Waters.
Number of development projects evaluated
by ecodesign tools
2015 6 174
2014 5 742
2013 5 200
4 In the case of packaging, a project is a detailed description of all the different packaging
system formats (or scenarios) that a product can be packaged in.
5 In the case of packaging, each packaging system format that a product can be packaged
in (e.g. aluminium can and corrugated board, glass bottle and shrink film, etc.) is termed a
scenario.
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