Coca-Cola Botswana drops water usage with P220 million effluent plant
Staff Writer | Monday September 6, 2021 15:18
In another initiative designed to build a more sustainable business, the company is also reducing the amount of plastic used in its packaging through ‘light weighting’, or making lighter plastic bottles.
CCCB has already shaved 3.7g off its 2 litre bottles, 5.1g off its 600ml packs and 2.75g off its one litre packs in a process of continuous improvement. The company has also launched a PET plastic collection programme through a P150,000 investment, in collaboration with Cleanico Waste Management Company, with a goal of collecting and recycling 30% of the plastic it produces by the end of the year.
Tickey Pule, CCBB’s public affairs, communication and sustainability manager said the company was developing increasingly sustainable ways to manufacture, distribute and sell its products.
“It’s critical for the wellbeing of our planet and humanity that we manage our use of resources like water more efficiently and protect the environment. “While food and beverage packaging is an important part of our modern lives, the world has a packaging problem, which we as CCBA have a responsibility to help solve,” Pule said.
“Our commitment is to invest in our planet and our packaging, to help make the world’s packaging problem a thing of the past.” The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and all its bottling partners are leading the industry to help collect and recycle a bottle or can for everyone they sell by 2030. In addition, the Coca-Cola system has set a target to make all its consumer packaging 100% recyclable globally by 2025 and use at least 50% recycled material in its packaging by 2030. “This is part of our larger strategy to grow with conscience as we become a total beverage company,” Pule said.
CCBA, together with TCCC, are leaders in using water responsibly in their operations and giving it back. TCCC and its bottlers aim to achieve at least 100% water balance globally and the use of water efficiency initiatives and technologies has resulted in water usage decreasing substantially over the past several years.