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A partnership for positive change
We're proud to help you drive and inspire positive action for our planet and people. Together we’re building a stronger, more sustainable future for everyone.
Together we’re building a stronger, more sustainable future for everyone
Our world is already feeling the effects of climate change and faster, bolder action is needed. We’re proud to be one of PepsiCo’s partners, working hard to help you meet your global ‘PepsiCo‘ Positive (pep+) sustainability goals, and deliver your ambitions across packaging, people and agriculture.
We have the scalable packaging solutions you need today and are investing in the new technologies and products that will help you achieve net-zero emissions by 2040 – one decade sooner than required under the Paris Agreement.
By ‘Redefining Packaging for a Changing World’, we have a key role to play in your circular value chain. See how your pep+ sustainability ambitions match our own.
How sustainable is your packaging?
Our pioneering ‘Circular Design Metrics’ (CDM) tool – an industry first – can rate and compare the circularity of your packaging designs across eight key indicators, from carbon footprint to recyclable content. Which means you get real clarity about your packaging’s sustainability performance and where to focus your attention to meet your pep+ goals. Find out more about Circular Design Metrics, and other ways we can work together to ensure PepsiCo’s packaging plays its part in decarbonising your operations and supply chain.
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A more sustainable future with every sip, every bite
Your food and beverage products are enjoyed all over the world, 1 billion times a day. And as you chart a new course to deliver better outcomes for the earth, it’s your ambition to have 100% recyclable, compostable or biodegradable packaging by 2025. We’re investing in innovative ways to help you meet your goal as early as 2023. See how we’re closing the loop through better design, keeping materials in use for as long as possible and focusing on designing our products to be reused and recycled.
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A key link in your circular value chain
Your circular value chain begins in the fields where your crops are grown and includes the forests where fibre is sourced for your packaging. DS Smith is committed to protecting natural resources and we care for forests and their biodiversity. By using only 100% recycled or chain of custody papers in our products we’re saving over 360,000 trees every year. But we’re not just protecting global forestry, we’re also enhancing the local environment around our mills. And by 2025 we’ll launch 100 biodiversity projects across Europe and North America, protecting everything from birds to bees.
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Promoting positive choices
You’re building a circular and inclusive value chain to accelerate change and address major global challenges like climate change. As part of DS Smith’s ‘Now and Next’ sustainability strategy, we have a target to enlighten 5 million people of the benefits of the circular economy by 2030. And not just adults, but children too… From our new animated YouTube video (translated into 11 languages and already viewed over 250,000 times), to innovative recycling initiatives and a free circular economy lesson plan for every school, first launched at COP26, we’re taking direct action now.