CCE and the Environment

Coca-Cola Enterprises wants to minimise the environmental impact of its products and operations and reduce it's carbon footprint.

  • All six of our manufacturing sites in Great Britain meet ISO14001 certification, the highest international standard for environmental management.
  • All our glass bottles are 100% recyclable and contain an average of 30% recycled materials.
  • Our cans are all made from 100% recyclable aluminium and contain around 50% recycled aluminium.
  • Our plastic bottles are all made from PET (polyethylene teraphthalate) and are 100% recyclable. We’re now working with our PET suppliers to secure recycled PET for use in Great Britain.
  • In 2007 we signed the Courtauld Commitment – a voluntary agreement on reducing packaging signed by 26 leading brand owners, manufacturers and retailers. It aims to stop the increase in packaging waste by 2008 and bring about absolute reductions by 2010.
  • Reducing landfill is a top priority for us. For example, in just three years we’ve achieved a tenfold reduction in the amount of waste we send to landfill from our Milton Keynes manufacturing site.
  • We now calculate and publish the CO2 emissions resulting from the manufacture and distribution of all our brands. To understand our carbon footprint in more detail, in 2007 we announced a partnership with the Carbon Trust to measure all greenhouse gas emissions embodied within selected products in our portfolio.

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You can find out much more about our commitment to the environment by reading our Corporate Responsibility Report or by visiting our online report:

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