Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) announced ambitious new 2020 sustainability targets, focusing on three main practice areas – resilient supply chain, sustainable products, and thriving people and communities.
One of its biggest goals is to make 100 percent of K-Cup packs recyclable by 2020, and achieve zero waste-to-landfill at owned and operated manufacturing and distribution facilities. Another stated goal is to reduce life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of brewed beverages by 25 percent vs. 2012 baseline.
In its supply chain, KGM pledges to engage 1 million people in the company’s manufacturing and agriculture supply chains to significantly improve their livelihoods. The goal is to source 100 percent of primary agricultural and manufactured products according to established Keurig Green Mountain responsible sourcing guidelines.
To establish its new targets, KGM said it drew from the in-depth materiality assessment conducted in 2012, which engaged more than 120 internal and external stakeholders. The company’s new 2020 targets take a long-term, strategic outlook to proactively address the biggest sustainability challenges facing the company as well as the planet.
“The targets outlined in our 2013 Sustainability Report reflect our strategy of integrating sustainability holistically across our organization and even more deeply into our business,” said T.J. Whalen, chief of strategy and sustainability for the specialty coffee, coffee maker and tea manufacturer.
“Our new targets demonstrate our need to tackle pressing issues both inside and well beyond our own corporate walls. Even more important than the targets themselves is our commitment to achieving them with innovation and excellence – through our own efforts and through partnerships with our stakeholders.”
