Britvic replaces steel with aluminium cans to cut carbon emissions

Britvic has announced new carbon emissions reduction targets to tackle climate change. The company has planned to switch to aluminium cans to reduce carbon emissions. These new targets have been verified by the Science Based Target initiatives (SBTi).

The company expects to reach its goal of a 50 per cent reduction in emissions from its operations by 2025. Britvic also targets to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

Britvic becomes the first UK soft drinks company to have an approved 1.5°C target.

To achieve its targets, the company is making strategic and meaningful changes to operations, such as installing biomass boilers to power its manufacturing and switching packaging from steel to aluminium cans, Britvic said.

Britvic has also announced plans to cut emissions by 35 per cent across the extended value chain by 2025.

Clive Hooper, Supply Chain Director for Britvic, said: “We recognise the escalating urgency and ambition required to tackle the issue of climate change and are committed to stepping up our role in addressing this. By setting a 1.5°C-aligned carbon reduction target, the most ambitious science-based target currently available, we are ensuring that we lead the way in driving significant emissions reductions across our full value chain.”

The Science Based Targets initiative is a collaboration between CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project), the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), World Resources Institute (WRI), and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and one of the We Mean Business Coalition commitments.