Waste cut by a third

The 33.4% reduction since 2008 was measured as part of BPI’s on-going commitment to cutting the levels of waste generated by its manufacturing operations. BPI achieved the saving partly by minimising the amount of material used to package its own products, and also by down-gauging the packaging it converts for its customers when this is possible.

In 2013, BPI used and converted the least amount of packaging since the company’s records began by replacing single use packaging with reusable packaging.

The Dumfries site redesigned the way it packages materials by increasing more finished products into the same amount of packaging; thus minimising waste. Last year, two BPI sites achieved zero-waste-to-landfill.