The food and drink manufacturers' trade body, the FDF, has today announced its commitment to a set of environmental targets.
These are as follows:
- 20% absolute reduction in CO2 emissions by 2010 compared with 1990 and an aspiration to a 30% cut by 2020.
- To send zero food and packaging waste to landfill from 2015
- Contribute significantly to WRAP's (www.wrap.org.uk) target of reducing the elvel of packaging reaching households by 340,000 tonnes by 2010 compared with 2005 and to provide advice to consumers on recycling/packaging recovery
- Achieve significant reductions in water use and contribute to a food-industry wide target of reducing water use by 20% by 2020 compared with 200
- Contribute to the food industry-wide target of reducing the envionmental and social impacts of transport by 20% by 2012 compared with 2002.
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