Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

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Every Crumb Counts
We support consumers’ efforts to reduce food waste through
our product development, packaging and appropriate portion
sizes. By assessing the extent of, and reasons for, food wastage
among Nestlé employees – acting as consumers – participating
in the Every Crumb Counts challenge allowed us to identify
which food groups were wasted most often, and the reasons
associated with such waste.
To help raise awareness of food wastage issues and to
assess food waste behaviours among Nestlé R&D employees,
we created and undertook the Every Crumb Counts challenge
across six R&D sites (Orbe, Singen, Konolfingen, York and
Beauvais, and the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne) in June
2015. Participating employees had to complete an online food
waste diary over two non-consecutive weeks; during the
intermediate week, tips and guidance on reducing waste were
shared through posters, videos and a chatroom.
A total of 217 employees reported their food waste in both
weeks. The total waste recorded was 153 kg, and the average
waste per participant dropped from over 75 g/day in week 1 to
46 g/day in week 2. Our York site achieved the lowest average
waste during the second week (24 g/day) and the biggest
reduction from week 1 (70%).
Across the test, fruit and vegetables were the most wasted
food, followed by starchy foods such as pasta and rice, and food
was most often wasted because it was out of date, or due to
oversized portions. The environmental impact associated with
the total food waste reported during the challenge was
equivalent to the CO 2 emissions from driving 2000 km and
using 90 bathtubs of water.
In all six Nestlé sites, participants reduced their food waste
during the assessment, indicating that the simple awareness of
high food waste levels can trigger behaviour change. The data
collected during the challenge will help us prioritise the food
categories where we can support consumers in reducing
food waste.
The Food Waste Resolution
Complementing our own commitment, we have joined other
members of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) in resolving to
halve food waste across our operations by 2025 against a 2016
baseline. The Food Waste Resolution was announced at the
CGF Global Summit in New York in June 2015.
In addition, CGF members will also contribute to meeting
the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) where they relate to food waste, such as Goal 12.3:
‘By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and
consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and
supply chains, including post-harvest losses.’ Read more
about the SDGs.
The CGF also announced the launch of a toolkit and digital
platform that provide real-life examples of what its members
have achieved to inspire other companies looking to do more.
The resolution on food waste demonstrates
our willingness to engage and take action in
an area where a collective industry effort can
make a difference.”
Paul Bulcke, Chief Executive Officer,
Nestlé and Co-Chair of the CGF
Other multi-stakeholder partnerships
We are actively involved in a number of other multistakeholder
initiatives to reduce food loss and waste, at a
global and national level. These include:
• On behalf of the CGF and together with the WRI, UNEP,
FAO, the WBCSD, the European Commission and Waste &
Resources Action Programme (WRAP), steering the
development of a major global and recognised protocol to
measure food loss and waste, in a coherent way throughout
the food chain (see case study below);
• Chairing the Environmental Sustainability Committee of
FoodDrinkEurope, leading the design of the Joint Food
Wastage Declaration, ‘Every Crumb Counts’ (see case
study) and contributing to the Preventing food wastage in
the food and drink sector report into how European food and
drink manufacturers are tackling food wastage within their
own operations and throughout their supply chains;
• Backing UNEP’s Think.Eat.Save campaign to encourage
people to reduce their ‘foodprint’;
• Membership of the Grocery Manufacturers Association-led
Food Waste Reduction Alliance, which aims to decrease
food waste sent to landfill in the United States;
• Participation in the EU FUSION project to avoid food
wastage;
• Helping develop the FAO toolkit ‘Reducing the Food
Wastage Footprint’; and
• Nestlé USA joining the US EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge,
and pledging to keep track of food inventories, setting a
goal to reduce overall food waste, and being recognised in
the EPA’s blog as a leader in the food recovery effort.
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