IFCO awards annual Sustainability Certificate to retailers and growers for the third year in a row - Seite 2

retailers are taking concrete measures to make supply chains more sustainable
and to protect the environment. This commitment is increasingly important to
customers as well as to business partners. Therefore, being able to prove this
commitment is a decisive factor for business success", explains Wolfgang
Orgeldinger, CEO at IFCO SYSTEMS.

RPCs guarantee annual CO2, energy, water and waste savings

IFCO is constantly monitoring the environmental benefits generated by its
logistics concept, the IFCO SmartCycleTM, which is based on the principle of
"share and reuse". All IFCO RPCs are reused between 30 and 120 times during
their lifetime, and at every cycle are put through a rigorous cleaning and
inspection process before being delivered for the next cycle. Damaged RPCs that
cannot be repaired are 100% recycled and used for the production of new IFCO
RPCs. Several studies have proven that the use of RPCs leads to savings in terms
of CO2 (up to 60%), energy (64%), water (80%), solid waste (up to 86%), and food
product damage (up to 96%), when compared with single-use packaging.

IFCO is constantly monitoring the environmental benefits generated along the
SmartCycleTM. In Europe and North America, IFCO business enabled the following
savings in 2019:

- 516,168 tonnes of CO2, equivalent to 280,275 fewer cars on the
road in a year
- 9.2 million cubic meters of water, equivalent to over 209
million five-minute showers
- 33,096 terajoules of electricity, enough to power over 17.4
million light bulbs for a year
- 265,873 tonnes of solid waste, equivalent to the trash produced
by 194 million individuals per day
- 47,296 tonnes of food product waste, equivalent to 78 million
average meals in the world.

These benefits carry through to IFCO customers' supply chains and represent a
significant achievement for companies wanting to protect their fresh produce
while still being committed to improving their sustainability performance.

Additional information

IFCO is the leading global provider of reusable packaging solutions for fresh
foods, serving customers in 50+ countries. IFCO operates a pool of over 314
million Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) globally, which are used for over 1.7
billion shipments of fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, eggs,
bread, and other items from suppliers to grocery retailers every year. IFCO RPCs
ensure a better fresh food supply chain by protecting freshness and quality and
lowering costs, food waste and environmental impact compared to single-use
packaging. More: www.ifco.com.

Contact:

IFCO:
Daniela Carbone
VP - Global Marketing
[e-mail]
http://www.ifco.com

Agentur:
HBI Helga Bailey GmbH
Corinna Voss / Markus Wild / Annette Hermann
Tel.: [phone] / -51 / -52
[e-mail]
www.hbi.de

Additional content: https://www.presseportal.de/pm/130931/4525816
OTS: IFCO Systems