Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

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Effluents and waste G4-DMA, G4-EN23
Waste and recovery
In a world facing increasing constraints on natural resources, our long-term goal is simple but ambitious: zero
waste for disposal. We’re making progress against a number of interim targets by preventing and minimising the
waste we generate in the first place, by avoiding food wastage and improving resource efficiency along the value
chain. Where possible, we also look to reuse materials and create value from them – through energy recovery or
creating new uses for by-products.
Towards zero waste for disposal
Our commitment
Improve resource efficiency in our operations
Our objectives
By 2015 – Achieve zero waste for disposal in 10% of
our factories.
By 2016 – Achieve zero waste for disposal in our sites.
Our approach
The Nestlé Policy on Environmental Sustainability states that
‘specific to our food and beverage business…we focus on
zero waste’. Through the application of Nestlé Continuous
Excellence (NCE) initiatives, we look to improve resource
efficiency, quality and productivity in our operations: doing
more with fewer resources and less waste.
Waste for disposal
In 2015, Nestlé reduced waste for disposal by 28% and,
since 2005, we have reduced total waste for disposal by 62%
to 165 000 tonnes, and disposal per tonne of product by 75%.
Only 1% of the waste we generate – such as detergents, oils,
fuels and grease – is classified as hazardous, which is
managed and disposed of in accordance with local regulations
and standards worldwide. Of the waste we disposed of, 91%
went to landfill, 4% to incineration without energy recovery
and 5% to other methods of disposal.
Waste for disposal (thousand tonnes)
2015 165
2014 213
2013 257
Waste for disposal (kg per tonne of product)
2015 3.0
2014 4.3*
2013 4.9
*
The 2014 figure was restated due to more complete data.
Waste for disposal is defined as any material that leaves a
Nestlé-managed location and is destined for final disposal with
no economic or ecological value. It includes landfilling and
incineration without energy recovery.
Using best practice from those markets where we do have
sites with zero waste for disposal, we have developed a Zero
Waste for Disposal Guideline. This guideline helps sites:
• Understand the challenges faced by some Nestlé sites in
their journey towards zero waste for disposal;
• Discover the recycling, recovery and reuse destinations of
different materials such as coffee grounds, tea leaves and
coffee capsules;
• Compare the economic costs and benefits of achieving zero
waste for disposal; and
• Share tools and examples of best practice implemented
across Nestlé to help all our sites prevent, reuse and recover
waste for disposal and by-products.
Our overall ambition is to work towards the point where no
materials generated in any Nestlé-managed site go to landfill or
are incinerated without energy being recovered. At the end of
2015, 105 Nestlé factories (22%) achieved zero waste for disposal.
Waste for disposal by destination (%)
5
4
Incineration without
energy recovery
(6 982 tonnes)
Landfill
(150 500 tonnes)
Other disposal method
(7 569 tonnes)
91
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