Our sustainable journey: Achieving TRUE Zero Waste Certification
As a responsible producer of better nutrition, managing waste sits at the heart of Glanbia’s sustainability goals. To help reduce our environmental impact, we focus on a circular approach that recovers resources for reuse within our business or as input to another system.
Our ambition is to achieve TRUE Zero Waste certification across all our sites by the end of 2025.
In late 2023, our Glanbia Nutritionals Sioux Falls site became the first Glanbia site to be awarded TRUE Certification at Gold Level, marking a significant milestone in achieving our waste management ambition. Following closely on that success, our sites in Richfield and Gooding also achieved TRUE Certification at Gold Level in early 2024.
TRUE Zero Waste is an internationally recognised, externally validated certification that focuses on waste prevention, reduction, and the ultimate diversion of waste from landfills. Our TRUE Zero Waste commitment includes a goal to divert at least 90% of each site’s waste from landfill and incineration.
Glanbia’s journey to attaining TRUE certification requires a strong collective effort across the business, and our people are rising to the challenge. We have established a waste leadership team to deliver TRUE certification, manage data reporting needs, and develop our food waste strategy. Members of this team are trained as TRUE Advisors and have introduced the TRUE Zero Waste certification preparation program and training to our operational sites. Glanbia employees from different functions including Environmental Health & Safety, Plant Management, Engineering, and Procurement, also completed training and passed the exam to become certified TRUE Advisors.
Our True Advisors are working diligently to create roadmaps for all manufacturing facilities to achieve certification for the remaining sites as they are ready.
Seven additional sites have started their submission process and look forward to getting certified in 2024. The processes and behavioural changes identified and successfully implemented in Sioux Falls will be utilised at other facilities. This year, we are piloting new initiatives and waste reduction programs across our locations to further reach our goal and implement a more circular economy system. Learn more about our sustainability initiatives here.