Industry goals
30 May 2012
There are a number of goals set for the Scotch Whisky
industry's environmental strategy:
- To mitigate GHG emissions and increase energy efficiency
- By 2020, 20% of primary energy requirements will be derived
from non-fossil
fuel sources, rising to 80% by 2050
- We will manage our water requirements effectively
- To engage in the development ofScotland's River Basin
Management Plans to ensure that a sustainable and good quality
water supply is maintained
- 10% reduction in the weight of product packaging materials by 2020
- 40% product packaging will be made from recycled materials by
2020
- All product packaging to be reusable or recyclable by 2020
- No waste from packaging operations will be landfilled by
2020
- We will seek to ensure that in future all casks brought into
the industry are made from oak sourced from sustainable
forests
- The industry will work with supply chain stakeholders
- The industry will report annually to our stakeholders
on our progress to demonstrate how we are meeting our commitments
and delivering against our targets
Goals are strongly aligned to the results of the SWA's
Life
Cycle Assessment which demonstrated that 39% of the industry's
impact was directly associated with its manufacturing processes,
11% with the distribution of Scotch and 50% associated with supply
chain impacts. The Life Cycle Assessment identified
opportunities for the industry to directly improve its performance
and opportunities where the industry might work with the supply
chain to encourage best practice.