Our sustainability journey at a glance

OUR SUSTAINABILITY JOURNEY AT A GLANCE

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Climate:

  • In Nigeria, our eight manufacturing plants now have solar panels and source 14% of their electricity from renewable energy sources.
  • We had increased our Nigerian renewable and clean energy supply from 58% in 2022 to 73% by the end of 2023. All the electricity supplied from the public grid is renewable for our Nigerian operations.
  • This year, we started using cleaner sources such as solar energy from rooftop panels in our production plant in Challawa. We also continued to extend these sources in our production plants in Ikeja and Abuja, reaching total installed capacity to 12 MW compared with 10 MW in 2022.

Packaging: Collecting, Recycling and Elimination

Packaging is among our primary sustainability priorities playing a critical role in reducing emissions and waste.  We believe every package has value and life beyond its initial use and that it should be collected and recycled into a new package or reused.

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We’re committed to collecting 65% of our primary packaging for recycling by 2025, supporting the global ambition of The Coca-Cola Company to have 100% collection by 2030. In 2023, we made significant progress towards our packaging collection goal, delivering an overall collection rate of 46%, with The Coca-Cola foundation contributing 33% of the total collection efforts.

To achieve our commitment, we are leading industry efforts to introduce Community based recycling infrastructures. By taking recycling to the communities, we aim to change the waste disposal habits. By the end of 2023, we have implemented community recycling programs and installed infrastructures in over 30 separate communities across Nigeria. More importantly, we are now leveraging on our robust customer network to drive synergies in sustainability. This is further manifested through our packaging recovery partnership with our commercial partners such as Food Concepts the owner of Chicken Republic Quick Service Restaurants in Nigeria.

Expand reusable packaging

In Nigeria, we’ve continued to drive focus on strengthening our glass refillable packaging ensuring a truly circular offering with minimal impact on the environment. This initiative represents another stride towards fostering a circular economy for packaging.  

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Eliminate unnecessary packaging

We are investing in packaging lightweighting research and development which ensures the reduction of the plastic content of our packaging while ensuring functionality is maintained. The PET packaging for our brands including water, energy, sparkling drinks, and juice are being redesigned to a lightweighted container containing less plastic in their production. This is a significant shift ensuring our overall plastic footprint is reduced by an average of 1.2 million kilograms of plastic every year from 2020. This is further driving a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as well as climate change. In addition to reducing our overall plastic load, we are partnering with stakeholders in the plastics value chain to increase collection and recycling of its packaging, in line with the organization’s commitment to collect 1 bottle for every bottle it puts in the market by 2030 thus helping to create a World Without Waste.        

WATER

Water touches every part of our business.

Protecting this valuable resource is our priority, especially in areas where water is scarce or at risk. Together with our stakeholders and local communities, we also want to make sure that people in these water risk zones have access to safe, good quality water.

Our Mission 2025 commitment for water risk areas is to reduce the water-use ratio in plants by 20% compared with our 2017 baseline and help secure water availability for communities in which we operate. In 2023, our overall water-use ratio reduction in plants in water priority locations was 6.8% compared with our 2017 baseline.

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Water stewardship community projects

Providing access to clean and safe water in local communities is an important part of our work in Nigeria. In 2023, we built sanitation and water facilities in Benin, Kano, Lagos, Maiduguri and Owerri as part of our €1 million commitment to celebrate our 70th anniversary in Nigeria. The facilities, which include a block of toilets, new boreholes and overhead tanks, aim to improve people’s

lives through access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in communities where we operate.

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People & Communities

#YouthEmpowered

We trained 1,865 young people on viable entrepreneurship and career skills during the 2023 campus edition of our #YouthEmpowered initiative. This is part of our commitment to nurturing the country’s future leaders.