INCPEN WELCOMES COURTAULD COMMITMENT 2
INCPEN welcomes the announcement of Courtauld Commitment 2 (CC2), an agreement between WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) and manufacturers and retailers to achieve more efficient use of resources throughout the life of grocery products and their packaging.
Having worked towards taking a holistic approach to improving packaging and product supply systems for over 30 years, INCPEN is delighted to be joined in those endeavours by the Government’s resource efficiency body.
Many of INCPEN’s member companies were supporters of, or signatories to, the first Courtauld Commitment which aimed for an absolute reduction in packaging waste, and a reduction by 2.3% of household food waste, by 2010.
WRAP’s CC2 targets include reducing the carbon impact of packaging by 10%, reducing household food and drink waste by 4%, and reducing supply chain product and packaging waste by 5% by the end of 2012.
INCPEN particularly welcomes WRAP’s work to reduce food waste. Well designed, resource efficient packaging actually has a net positive environmental impact by preventing food and other goods from going to waste.
INCPEN members already build carbon, water and other resource savings into *their own long term plans, which include optimising packaging. Working with WRAP will enable them to obtain public recognition for their achievements at the same time as helping WRAP meet its targets.
Jane Bickerstaffe, Director of INCPEN says: “This is just one step towards industry and WRAP getting a better understanding of the complexity of supply chains. We hope it will lead to real, holistic, science-based decisions in government, not decisions based on single factors such as carbon or packaging reduction.
There is no doubt that there is broad and enthusiastic support for the principles of the second Courtauld Commitment and INCPEN hopes that its working relationship with WRAP will help to maintain and enhance communications between industry and Government in the future.”
1 INCPEN – the Industry Council for Packaging & the Environment is a research organisation set up in 1974 to study the environmental and social impact of packaging. It draws together an influential group of companies that operate throughout the supply chain and share a common interest in packaging, the environment and sustainable development.
INCPEN members: Amcor Flexibles, ASDA, Ball Packaging Europe, Boots, Britvic Soft Drinks, Cadbury,
Coca-Cola Great Britain, Colgate-Palmolive, Corus, Crown Europe, Diageo, Dow, DS Smith, Duracell, Elizabeth Arden, Findus Group, Gillette, Green and Black’s, Imperial Tobacco, J Sainsbury, Kellogg’s, LINPAC Group, Marks and Spencer, Molson Coors (UK), Nestlé UK, Procter & Gamble, Rexam, Tesco, Trebor Bassett, Unilever, Warburtons
* INCPEN members’ environmental management systems ‘Toward Sustainable Distribution’. http://www.incpen.org/pages/data/TowardsSustainableDistribution2006.pdf
2 WRAP’s Courtauld Commitment http://www.wrap.org.uk/retail/courtauld_commitment/index.html
For more information, contact:Vicki Procko – +44 (0)1189 255 992, 07788 724817, vprocko@incpen.org
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