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
G4-EC2, Energy G4-DMA, Emissions G4-DMA, G4-EN15, G4-EN16, G4-EN17, G4-EN20
• In 2015, Nestlé Italy (food) purchased about 110 000 GJ of
green electricity. This cost an extra CHF 23 200, but about
11 000 tonnes of CO 2 eq emissions were avoided as a result;
and
• Nestlé Brazil also started to procure renewable electricity
for 14 of its sites in 2015 through power purchase
agreements, covering almost 50% of their electricity
consumption and cutting emissions by more than 20 000
tonnes of CO 2 eq. The electricity comes from a variety of
sources including small hydropower plants, solar, biomass
and wind farms. More sites will switch to renewable
electricity during 2016.
Purina moves towards
renewables in the United States
At Nestlé Purina, we use renewable energy at our
manufacturing facilities to help improve our performance. In
the United States, more than 20% of the total electricity used
by our PetCare plants came from renewable resources, such as
solar, wind and hydroelectricity, and we aim to procure at least
35% renewable electricity at all production plants by 2020.
To help us achieve our aims:
• The solar arrays we have installed at five locations generate
more than 1 MW of solar power a year, some of which is
returned to local utility companies;
• Our Dunkirk, New York, factory derives about 70% of its
total electricity from renewable sources, mostly as
hydroelectric power from Niagara Falls;
• Each month, our Flagstaff, Arizona, pet food factory
purchases ‘green blocks’ of electricity from its local utility
to support the generation of renewable energy in the region;
and
• We use cogeneration – the production of two types of
energy – to provide a portion of the electricity needed by
our factory in Maricopa, California.
We are also making improvements to our factories and
administrative buildings, such as migrating to more energyefficient
LED lighting, optimising HVAC (heating, ventilation
and air conditioning) systems and installing low-water-use
fixtures.
Such efforts have seen Nestlé Purina gain LEED (Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design) certifications at St Louis,
Missouri (Gold), Gray Summit, Missouri and Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma (both Silver), and receive the US EPA’s ENERGY
STAR Certification for one of the buildings at its St Louis
headquarters.
electricity to power more than 1000 households. This
electricity will be fed into the Swiss national grid, while the
heat will be piped to the bottling plant.
Meanwhile, our Toluca coffee plant near Mexico City was
the first in the country to create steam from biomass. The
atmospheric fluid bed boiler, operational since 2012, provides
a sustainably managed use for around 54 000 tonnes of spent
coffee grounds each year. It has reduced GHG emissions by
23% and means that over half of the factory’s steam
requirements come from a renewable energy source.
Similarly, at our Araras plant in São Paulo, we use the coffee
grounds from the production of Nescafé as biomass to
produce energy for the factory. The material is pressed to
reduce moisture, mixed with small pieces of wood and burned
in a boiler, generating steam for the factory. What remains
(about 3%) is composted and turned into organic fertiliser. This
process saves electricity, reduces the disposal of solid waste
and avoids more than 20 000 tonnes of CO 2 emissions.
Using natural refrigerants
Refrigeration fluids based on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are
widely used throughout industry but are known to contribute
to climate change. However, non-HFC refrigerants – natural
alternatives, including CO 2 , ammonia, water and air, and
hydrocarbons (HCs), such as propane and iso-butane – do not
harm the ozone layer and have negligible or no global warming
effects.
We have committed to use safe natural refrigerant alternatives
for industrial refrigeration installations and implement new
solutions to improve their performance. This has included
assessing the safety risk of HC refrigerants, the results of which
were published in the International Journal of Refrigeration.
Investigations such as these have enabled us to commit to phase
out some HFC refrigerants and introduce natural refrigeration
ahead of the timescales imposed by regulation.
Our objectives
By 2016 – Expand the use of natural refrigerants, which
do not harm the ozone layer and have a negligible impact
on climate change, in our industrial refrigeration systems.
Industrial refrigeration systems using natural refrigerants
(%)
2015 91
2014 92
2013 93
Using by-products as energy sources
In Switzerland, Nestlé Waters has been collaborating with a
Swiss company specialising in renewable energy systems to
construct an agricultural biogas facility at Vaud to provide
renewable energy for our Henniez bottling plant. The plant,
due to open at the beginning of 2016, will process almost
25 000 tonnes of manure a year from 26 local farms, as well as
coffee grounds from Nescafé and Nespresso production and
recycling sites across Switzerland, and generate enough
By 2017 – All our new refrigerated trucks will use natural
refrigerants.
By 2020 – All new proprietary cold beverages dispensers
of Nestlé Professional will use natural refrigerants.
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