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
Effluents and waste G4-DMA
Packaging
We are committed to optimising the environmental performance of our packaging, and we are
working to ensure that the environmental benefits from packaging improvements are not outweighed
by increased product losses due to under-packaging. Packaging helps prevent losses resulting from
breakage and spoilage, so we’re developing methods that are more resistant to tearing, punctures and
other damage. For example, water bottles can be damaged during transportation due to the low
stability of pallets and the force exerted on the load by stretched film. By changing the wrapping
parameters of the stretch film, increasing the pallet stability and better controlling the film force,
package damage has been more than halved in Poland, saving half a million bottles per month.
Distribution
We are taking steps to improve our demand planning – supporting manufacturing efficiency, reducing
wastage due to age or obsolescence, optimising our inventory management and ensuring fresh
products at point of sale. And we’re using our expertise and new technology to avoid food wastage in
our distribution operations.
Consumers
Offering consumers storage guidance and preparation instructions are important factors in reducing waste,
so we provide clear instructions on our packaging, as well as on product and brand websites, to raise
awareness among consumers on the issue of food wastage. Products carry the slogan Portion Guidance.
We’ve also been developing creative solutions that can help consumers make the most of leftovers.
These include a range of different doughs (pizzas, pasties, etc.) that can be filled with leftover food
from the fridge while in France, Maggi has brought out a smartphone leftovers app full of top tips and
recipes. Maggi Soups in India also has a microsite that is accessible by scanning on-pack QR codes
with a smartphone.
Nestlé Professional has developed a range of online courses for hospitality and food service
customers in the UK and Ireland, including one focused on waste management issues that provides
practical suggestions for reducing, reusing and recycling waste.
Employees
We use employee engagement campaigns to raise awareness and reduce food wastage in our
canteens and factories. At our headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, employees were encouraged to
take reasonable portions at the self-service restaurant and given the opportunity to buy any leftovers
to take home; in six months, food waste fell by a third. And at our Product Technology Centre in Orbe,
employees could take an online quiz on food loss and wastage.
Nestlé and food banks in Mexico
In Mexico, 27 million people (one in four) live in food poverty
yet a third of the food produced in the country is wasted 8 . Our
policy stated that a product with less than one month before its
expiration date could not be sold and had to be used as animal
feed or destroyed. But when the non-profit NGO Bancos de
Alimentos de México (BAMX) started operating food banks,
channels for distributing products that we couldn’t sell, but
were still suitable for human consumption, were established
and accordingly, we aligned our policies with these changes.
Through our alliance with BAMX, running since 1999, we have
provided 120 million meals since 2006, to around 700 000
low-income consumers a year, as well as improving their
nutrition knowledge and the quality of their diet in many cases.
A survey by Monterey Food Bank and Universidad Autónoma
de Nuevo León, supported by Nestlé, showed that our strategy
takes more than 70% of children under 13 years out of
malnutrition within one year.
Committed to reduce food loss and waste
Our efforts to coordinate our food wastage initiatives across
our value chain, share good practice and guide multistakeholder
initiatives are coordinated by our Nestlé Zero Food
Wastage Taskforce, which met three times in 2015.
Its main achievement in the past year has been the launch
of The Nestlé Commitment to reduce food loss and waste.
This addresses food loss and waste through responsible
sourcing, zero waste for disposal in our sites, educating
consumers and employees on reducing food waste, and
engaging with key stakeholders – such as regulators and
scientists – to develop and implement solutions. The initiative
was launched during the annual meeting of SAVE FOOD, an
organisation set up by Messe Dusseldorf, the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to combat
food losses and wastage. The 2015 meeting was hosted by
Nestlé at our headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland.
8 Source: http://www.expoknews.com/700000-mexicanos-son-beneficiados-con-elprograma-alimenta-de-nestle-y-banco-de-alimentos/
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