Food Industry Sustainability Strategy FDFs FiveFold Environmental Ambition

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Food Industry Sustainability StrategyFDFs
Five-Fold Environmental Ambition

• Steve Reeson
• Energy Manager
• Food and Drink Federation

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Food and Drink Federation
The Industry We
Represent

• Turnover of over 74 billion accounting for 15
  of the UKs total manufacturing sector
• Employs some 470,000 people, around 13.7 of the
  UK manufacturing work force
• Exports about 9.7 billion of food and drink
• Imports about 21.9 billion of food and drink
• Buys some two-thirds of all the UKs agricultural
  produce.

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Food Industry Sustainability Strategy

• Published April 2006
• Developed from 2002 Strategy for Sustainable
  Farming and Food
• How those in the food industry can contribute to
  sustainable
• development
• First sector specific strategy between
  Government, industry and other stakeholders
• Sets out key priority areas
• Widespread adoption of best practice

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Food Industry Sustainability Strategy
Food and Drink Manufacturing 430
megalitres per day from public water supply 260
megalitres per day from abstraction
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Food Industry Sustainability Strategy
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Food Industry Sustainability Strategy
Key water using processes
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Food Industry Sustainability Strategy
Water Use - Drivers

• Food safety and hygiene
• Product quality
• Industry commitment to sustainable development
  and efficient resource use
• Food Industry Sustainability Strategy
• IPPC implementation
• Best Practice Programmes
• Cost of water and price increases.

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FDFs Five-Fold Environmental Ambition

• FDF is being bold about making a real difference
  for the environment
• Our members have good environmental records
  individually
• This is a collective and more structured approach

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Collective commitment

• FDF members are collectively committing to make a
  significant contribution to improving the
  environment
• We are focusing on areas where we can make the
  biggest difference
• No other food trade body had taken this
  collective approach

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Our five-fold ambition

• The 1st part of our five-fold ambition is
• to achieve a 20 absolute reduction in CO2
  emissions by 2010 compared to 1990
• to show leadership nationally and internationally
  by aspiring to a 30 reduction by 2020

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UK Food Chain Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2004
4 MTeCO2e
17 MTeCO2e
3 MTeCO2e
7 MTeCO2e
5 MTeCO2e
54 MTeCO2e
9 MTeCO2e
12 MTeCO2e
Total 111 MTeCO2e 17 of UK 659
MTeCO2e
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Our five-fold ambition

• The 2nd part of our five-fold ambition is
• to seek to send zero food and packaging waste to
  landfill from 2015

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Our five-fold ambition

• The 3rd part of our five-fold ambition is
• to make a significant contribution to WRAPs work
  to achieve an absolute reduction in the level of
  packaging reaching households by 2010 compared to
  2005
• to provide more advice to consumers on how best
  to recycle or otherwise recover used packaging

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Our five-fold ambition

• The 4th part of our five-fold ambition is
• to embed environmental standards in our transport
  practices to achieve fewer and friendlier food
  transport miles
• to contribute to the FISS target for the food
  chain to reduce its external impacts by 20 by
  2012 compared to 2002

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Our five-fold ambition

• The 5th part of our five-fold ambition is
• to achieve significant reductions in water use
• to contribute to an industry-wide absolute target
  in the FISS to reduce water use by 20 by 2020
  compared to 2007

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Delivering our water ambition

• FDF has worked closely with Envirowise to develop
  a common framework for improving water efficiency
  best practice
• Launched on 28 January 2008 as the Federation
  House Commitment (FHC)
• 21 FDF members with a combined turnover of over
  15 billion signed up on day 1
• www.FHC2020.co.uk

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Original Signatories
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Site Water Balance main flows
Rain water capture
lost embedded e.g. evaporation
In
Out
Embedded in products
Embedded in Raw materials
Recycled
Mains
To sewer To environment
Leaks
On site Treatment
Recycled
Site Storage
To sewer To environment
Borehole
River
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Case study Walkers

• Reflecting its philosophy that if you dont
  measure it you cannot manage it, Walkers
• installed around 30 water meters to measure water
  use per shift at its Leicestershire sites
• developed engineering solutions to reduce water
  use
• changed attitudes and behaviour by making staff
  passionate about water conservation
• achieved water savings of about 700 m litres/yr

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Case study Cadbury

• Cadbury Trebor Bassett invested about 2m in a
  waste water treatment plant at its site in Chirk
• it produces high quality water which is used to
  feed boilers to raise steam
• water use has been reduced by 15
• about 17m litres of water saved per year
• 10,000 in water costs saved per year

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The Way Forward

• Working with Envirowise - build on FHC
• Continue to promote best practice - partners
• Water footprinting
• Embedded water

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