Our Five-Fold Environmental Ambition

"Our Ambition is far more than a showcase of industry best practice. It is a road map for the positive combined activity of our sector to address an uncertain future".


The Food and Drink Federation's Five-fold Environmental Ambition has now been running for two years, turning the commitments we made on behalf of our members in October 2007 into real environmental improvements across all the areas where we felt we could make the biggest difference.

Specifically, our members are working collectively:

  • To make significant reductions in the levels of packaging reaching households through our support for WRAP's Courtauld Commitment, which aims to achieve an absolute reduction in 2010 compared with 2006
  • To embed environmental standards in our members' food transport practices to achieve 'fewer and friendlier' food transport miles – and to contribute to an absolute target for the food chain to reduce its environmental and social impacts by 20% by 2012 compared with 2002
  • To use the Federation House Commitment to help our members achieve significant reductions in water use – and to contribute to an industry-wide target to reduce water use, outside of that embedded in products themselves, by 20% by 2020 against a 2007 baseline We are pleased to be publishing this, our second annual progress report, which shows how far we have come in delivering what we set out to do.

“I'm delighted to support the FDF's second progress report on its Five-Fold Environmental Ambition, setting out the food and drink sector's environmental achievements in the past year."
View the full statement of support from The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs


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Last reviewed: 24 Nov 2008