July 23
Coca-Cola Enterprises, which sells about 80% of The Coca-Cola Co.´s North
American bottle and can volume, plans to reduce carbon emissions 15% and
recycle 100% of its packaging by 2020.
The measures are part of the company´s five Corporate Responsibility and
Sustainability focus areas, which the company plans to achieve by 2020.
Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world´s largest marketer, producer and
distributor of nonalcoholic beverages, plans to reduce its packaging and
recover the equivalent of 100% of the packaging it produces.
The company recovered and reused some 125,000 metric tons, or about 137,000
tons, of packaging materials in 2008, according to its fourth Corporate
Responsibility and Sustainability Report, available at www.cokecce.com/assets/uploaded_files/final_cce_2008_crsreport_lowres.pdf.
It also measured the global and individual country carbon footprints of its
U.S., Canadian and West European operations.
Contact Waste & Recycling News reporter Joe Truini at 330-865-6166 or
jtruini@crain.com
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