Sustainability and Competitiveness
Sustainability is about 'achieving a better quality of life for everyone, now
and for future generations to come'. The environment is a central facet of this.
On 25 October, FDF decided to be bold about making a real difference to the
environment. On behalf of our members, we made a firm, collective, commitment to
making a significant contribution to improve the environment by targeting
priorities
where we can make the biggest difference.
Working collectively, our Five-fold Environmental Ambition (in summary) is to:
- significantly reduce CO2 emissions
- to seek to send zero food and packaging waste to landfill
- reduce the level of packaging reaching households
- achieve significant reductions in water use
- achieve fewer and friendlier food transport miles.
FDF is also committed to measuring progress against each of our ambitions and
publishing annual progress. You can look up our members' current achievements by
going to our environmental case studies section.
A key milestone already achieved was the launch of the Federation House Commitment on water efficiency best practice on 28 January. The Commitment was jointly
developed by FDF and Envirowise, the Government's expert body on water efficiency,
to help FDF achieve its water saving ambition and to help the sector as a whole.
21 FDF member companies, with a combined turnover of £15 billion, were the very
first to sign up to it.
Sustainability and Competitiveness Steering Group
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Last reviewed: 23 Jun 2008