Fruit supplier aims to reduce carbon emissions with a range of initiatives from water to packaging
Worldwide Fruit has set out its recent developments and future targets in its latest sustainability report.
According to the major fruit supplier, its climate strategy is to protect environmental resources and reduce carbon emissions to net zero.
To support this, the company said it is monitoring the carbon emissions of its strategic suppliers and has been conducting assessments with various apple, pear, avocado, and stonefruit production farms.
The chosen farms then either share their existing carbon footprint figures or calculate a new footprint aggregate using South African company Confronting Climate Change (CCC).
Since May, Worldwide Fruit has also been collaborating with WRAP and participating and funding water roadmap projects in South Africa and Peru, as well as a responsible water management project in Chile.
The company is striving to improve water vulnerability and scarcity in areas around the world, and is seeking to understand more about their growers’ involvement in groundwater monitoring activities, sustainable water management tools and biodiversity-related monitoring.
As for product packaging, Worldwide Fruit will continue to remove, reduce, and reuse recyclable packaging. To date, it has removed 4,768 tonnes of plastic from its supply chain, but stressed there is further to go.
It is now targeting removing all unnecessary packaging and is ensuring 95 per cent of its plastic packaging weight is reusable or recyclable.
