Brambles reports FY17 sustainability progress

Global supply-chain logistics company Brambles, which operates primarily through the CHEP and IFCO brands, has published its Sustainability Review for the 2017 Financial Year.
Brambles operates a circular business model, specialising in the sharing and reuse of unit load equipment including more than 590 million pallets, crates and containers. In FY17, customers’ use of CHEP and IFCO platforms saved 1.6 million trees, 2.5 million metric tonnes of CO₂ emissions and 1.4 million metric tonnes of solid waste, the report stated. Transport collaboration projects with over 200 customers initiated by Brambles also removed 64.7 million empty truck kilometres from the world’s supply chains.
In FY17, 99.1 per cent of the timber used by CHEP came from certified sources, and Brambles also eliminated plastic waste and raw material costs by recycling 22,600 tonnes of end-of-life plastic materials into new CHEP plastic pallets and IFCO reusable plastic crates. Brambles operations also achieved a 7.8 per cent reduction in carbon emissions per unit and 14.3 per cent of the electricity it consumed came from renewable sources.
“This has been another fantastic year for sustainability at Brambles, in which we have continued our excellent progress towards our 2020 goals,” said Juan Jose Freijo, Head of Global Sustainability, Brambles. “These achievements are only possible thanks to the end-to-end collaboration between our employees and our customers worldwide.
“Our commitment to sustainability is at the very heart of everything we do. Through the successful combination of our circular, ‘share and reuse’ business model, global scale and supply chain expertise, we are able to reduce operating costs and demand for natural resources, both in our own company and across the world’s supply chains.”