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Saputo Waste & Packaging

Waste & Packaging

Aimed at increasing operational efficiency, and driven by our continuous improvement mindset, we are always looking for ways to reduce, repurpose, and divert waste from landfills. Dairy is particularly efficient in this regard, as many of its byproducts can be transformed into valuable ingredients.

Over the past five years, we implemented a series of initiatives to reduce food waste, including:

  • Redirecting more than 1,7 million tonnes of organics to animal feeds.
  • Investing in biodigesters in Argentina and Australia to process organics into biogas.
  • Distributing more than 1.4 million kilos of food surplus to food banks across our operations, which resulted in an estimated reduction of 6,600 million tonnes of CO2e.

Building on these efforts, we are intensifying our commitment to achieve a 50% reduction in food waste by 2030.

Packaging

While packaging is vital to ensuring the integrity and safety of our products, we recognize that it can also pose significant environmental impacts. 

Over the last five years, we have undertaken several initiatives to meet our packaging goals:

  • We introduced PCR in shrink film at some of our USA plants.
  • We launched bottles made from 100% recycled plastic and 100% recyclable.
  • We launched our new CHEER refill slice packs, reducing plastic use by 80% by eliminating the outer container and encouraging reuse of existing containers.
  • We increased the recycled content of our sliced cheese trays in our Dairy Division (UK).
  • We were awarded “Flexible Plastic Pack of the Year” in partnership with Amcor at the UK Packaging Awards 2023 for our recycle-ready grated cheese packaging for our Cathedral City brand.

Our packaging targets were our most ambitious as they are highly influenced by external factors such as the availability of recycling infrastructure and high-quality recycled materials at competitive prices. Given these challenges, we have reviewed and reassessed our packaging targets. We remain committed to ensuring that 100% of our packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2030. 

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Saputo produces, markets, and distributes a wide array of dairy products of the utmost quality, including cheese, fluid milk, extended shelf-life milk and cream products, cultured products and dairy ingredients.