Page 16 - Newsbites March 2021

Planet

Sustainability Update both significant sustainability and cost
impacts.
Sustainability is a core priority for the Group
and 2020 has highlighted just how We are zero to landfill at SHS GB. This means
important sustainability really is to us all. all of our waste is reused, recycled or
converted into energy.
Over the past year we have been working on
our Group sustainability strategy and
roadmap. We’ve benchmarked all of our sites
and the wider Group, completed a gap
analysis and we have set out our
Sustainability Charter. Following on from
this, we have decided to prioritise 5 key
sustainability areas over the next 4 years.
All of these are topics that affect every one Packaging
of us and areas we can all make a positive
impact on. Ever since David Attenborough’s Blue
Planet, we’ve seen the consequences of
Energy plastic pollution on our world and from this,
there’s been huge demand for sustainable
Climate change is an emergency; current packaging. Think of how much black plastic
science tells us we have about 9 years to was around a couple of years ago and how
do something about this before irreversible little we see now - recyclable packaging is a
damage if global warming surpasses 1.5oC. key consumer demand and concern.
The majority of our sites are now on
renewable electricity and we’re keen to We’re targeting all of our produced finished
reduce our carbon emissions and ensure goods packaging to be 100% recyclable for
we’re as energy efficient as possible. This 2025 and for cardboard, timber and paper
not only helps us from an environmental side packaging to be FSC/PESC certified. We also
but helps us stay resilient as a business. want to use more recycled packaging in the
first place.

Waste
Water
We are setting Group objectives in our
Sustainability Charter around achieving zero It’s easy to take water for granted; after all it
to landfill. Beyond that though, we don’t feels like it’s all around us. Did you know only
want to create waste in the first place. It has 1% of the world’s water is actually usable by