Crown Holdings, Inc. has releases its second Sustainability Report structured using the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) G3 Guidelines at Application Level C.
The report focuses on developments in the company’s sustainability efforts from an economic, environmental and social perspective since its inaugural publication was issued in November 2011.
Reflecting fiscal years 2011 and 2012, the report includes third-party industry figures as well as internal data showing progress on seven key metrics since the last reporting period: material consumption, volatile organic compound emissions, energy consumption, direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, waste recycled, waste disposal and nitrogen oxide emissions.
“The findings in the report are clear and show that even as we have increased our unit volume production and expanded our manufacturing activities to new geographies we are using fewer resources and less energy,” said John Conway, chairman of the Board and CEO.
Highlights of the report include:
- Metal packaging is 100% recyclable and can be infinitely recycled with no loss of physical properties,
- Cans help minimize food waste by protecting food from spoilage and light and also provide the longest shelf life of any package,
- The beverage can you drink from today can return to the shelf as another beverage can in as little as 60 days,
- Nearly 75% of all aluminum and 80-90% of all steel that has ever been produced is still in use today,
- New cans produced with recycled steel reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 75%, while new cans produced with recycled aluminum reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 95%, and
- 9 million cans are recycled every hour worldwide.
Winners of the first annual Chairman’s Sustainability Awards program, which was developed to recognize Crown’s manufacturing facilities that have shown outstanding leadership and innovation across all three dimensions of sustainability.
The successes achieved at the winning plants serve as a benchmark for Crown’s other facilities around the world to emulate.
