Sustainability

Chilled Prepared Food Sector Sustainability Aims

CFA will continue to provide leadership on sustainability to the UK chilled prepared food manufacturing sector by encouraging it to minimise its carbon footprint, helping setting performance targets, assisting the development of means of monitoring against them, generating research to support knowledge and plaing a leading role in the further development of Government and industry sustainability policy.

CFA's Sustainability Aims are:

1. Achieve a 20% reduction in CO₂ emissions by 2010 compared with 1990 and aspiring to a 30% reduction by 2020 (based on Climate Change Agreement (CCA) sector data).

2. Achieve significant reductions in water use to help reduce stress on water supplies and contribute to meeting the DEFRA Food Industry Sustainability Strategy (FISS) absolute target for the food industry to reduce water use by 20% by 2020 compared with 2007.

3. By 2010 diverting from landfill 70% of food waste to landfill.

4. By 2015 sending zero food waste to landfill.

5. Make a significant contribution to WRAP's work to achieve an absolute reduction in the level of packaging reaching households by 2010 compared with 2005 and provide more advice to consumers on how best to recycle or otherwise recover used packaging.

6. To support ethical sourcing practices incorporating sustainability principles.

Agreed 28/9/09