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ABOUT NESTLÉ

Backed by more than a century of research and experience, Nestlé Canada’s vision is to be the most trusted and respected food and nutrition company in Canada, bringing Good Food, Good Life to Canadians. Nestlé in Canada manufactures some of the world’s most recognized and trusted brands, including NESTLÉ PROFESSIONAL, STOUFFER’S, LEAN CUISINE, NESQUIK, NESTLÉ GOOD START, POWERBAR, HÄAGEN-DAZS and KIT KAT, NESCAFÉ, NESTLÉ PURE LIFE, NESTLÉ DRUMSTICK and Nestlé Purina BENEFUL. Nestlé in Canada employs approximately 3,500 people in more than 20 manufacturing sites, sales offices and distribution centres across the country.

LOCATION

ADDRESS: 9050 Airport Road, Brampton, Ontario PHONE: 905-458-3600WEBSITE: www.nestle.ca

WASTE REDUCTION

Managing waste at Nestlé’s Brampton distribution facility can often be complicated. Not only does Nestlé have the traditional wastes found in most distribution centres – such as cardboard, shrink wrap, organics, paper, cans and bottles - but they also have to handle Nestlé product that is returned or not sold. Despite these challenges, Nestlé has worked towards a zero-waste program that embraces the four “R’s” of refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle.

Nestlé has realized that developing and implementing a zero-waste program takes a constant commitment and strong relationship with your waste management company to achieve. “We meet with our waste management company regularly to strategize how best to reduce our waste, maximize diversion and ensure nothing ends up in the landfill,” says Owen Cooke, National Logistics Compliance Manager, of Nestlé.

Nestlé Brampton Facility

Nestlé Waste Reduction

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Nestlé utilizes a number of ways to ensure they reach zero-waste, including reducing the amount of waste generated, diverting recyclable materials and organics, using environmentally friendly products, and converting waste-to-energy for products that are hard to dispose of. The following table provides an overview of Nestlé’s waste make up and diversion from 2010.

Breakdown of Nestle’s waste streams for January 2011

Type of Waste Total (Tonnes)

Waste Collected 46.55Nestlé Product Disposal 333.86Nestlé Product Destruction 65.96Waste to Landfill 0.00Paper 6.32Cardboard 31.20Cardboard (Product Destruction) 117.47Cans and Bottles 1.61Organics 42.81

TRIM YOUR WASTE PROGRAM

To help improve Nestlé’s waste management program and reach zero-waste status, they worked with Wasteco and their Trim Your Waste Program. In 2009, Wasteco won the Platinum Award for Communications from the Recycling Council of Ontario at their annual Waste Minimization Awards. The Trim Your Waste Program is offered as a value-added service to clients who are aiming to minimize waste generation and increase diversion.

Wasteco believes in the four “R” hierarchy: refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle. Refuse is often the overlooked “R”, but it plays an important role in ensuring products, vendors and services that are not environmentally friendly are not included in your operations. For instance, it’s great to reduce your consumption of paper towels and ensure they are recycled; however, if you don’t use paper towels that are made from recycled material, your organization is not supporting the cradle-to-cradle system that recycling aims to realize.

Through Wasteco’s Trim Your Waste Program, clients receive a range of services to ensure their waste management program is maximizing reduction and diversion, including:

• DiversionReports–ongoingreportstomonitorthesuccessoftheirprogram.

• WasteAuditsandWorkPlans–comprehensiveanalysis,reviewandrecommendationsonwaste management practices and associated equipment.

• WasteInspectionsandWalkthroughs–ongoingsnapshotsonwastecompositionandreviewsof waste management procedures.

• EducationandAwareness–developmentanddeploymentofeducationtoolstoimprovewastemanagement programs.

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ZERO-WASTE AT NESTLÉ

Nestlé partnered with Wasteco to develop their zero-waste program. The program started with a detailed audit and review of their operations, and then a work plan was developed to include recommended management strategies, equipment requirements and education tools. The program touches all facets of Nestlé’s operations, including their office, warehouse and product destruction requirements.

WAREHOUSE WASTE MANAGEMENTLike most warehouses, Nestlé has a comprehensive program for recycling cardboard, shrink wrap, paper and pallets. It also includes an organics diversion program for employees and product. And while they have always had the capacity for recycling for cans and bottles, there were no containers in the warehouse for employees to properly dispose of these materials. To address this last issue, Nestlé worked with Wasteco to introduce containers for cans and bottles; and, more importantly, Wasteco identified the need for signage throughout the warehouse in order to communicate the recycling program. “Often companies have the infrastructure for a great waste management program, but don’t communicate it properly,” Greg Keenan of Wasteco noted. “When you don’t educate your staff about the options, the result can be a low diversion rate and wasted time and effort.”

OFFICE WASTE MANAGEMENTMuch like their warehouse, Nestlé has a lot of the infrastructure for a great waste management program: every desk has a container for garbage and paper recycling, and recycling is provided at each photocopier. However, working with Wasteco, they identified the need to add can and bottle recycling to their kitchen and boardrooms. The kitchen provided the biggest opportunity for diversion, as there was no organics program in place. Adding organics in the kitchen was as easy as adding the required bins to build upon the existing program already in place in the warehouse.

One of the other interesting projects was starting a paper coffee cup recycling program. Like many offices, there were a lot of disposable coffee cups ending up in the waste stream at the facility. To help divert this waste, styrofoam cups were eliminated and paper cups that could be recycled by Wasteco were introduced. This, in addition to the switch to brown paper towels made from recycled fibre and are easily recycled, ensured that Nestlé was adopting the “R” of refuse into their waste management program.

However, much like the warehouse, the need to improve signage was also identified for both the

Go green at work

n Walk, bike, carpool, or take public transit to work. You’ll save money and a piece of the planet.

n Use reusable coffee mugs at the office and the coffee shop instead of disposable. Styrofoam takes thousands of years to breakdown in landfills and most paper coffee cups cannot be recycled.

n Go litterless for lunch. Pack your midday meal in refillable containers and use metal cutlery instead of plastic.

n Buy environmentally friendly products that have little or no packaging, last a long time, and are reusable or recyclable.

n Bring your own reusable bags for shopping. Plastic bags take 100 years to break down in a landfill.

n Save paper whenever possible. Print on both sides of paper, send documents by email, proofread before printing, and recycle.

n Reduce your energy consumption. Turn off your computer monitor, printers, copy machines, and the lights at the end of the day.

n Educate yourself. Know what can be recycled and what can’t.

n Whenever possible, take the stairs.

Thank You for recycling and diverting

waste from landfillsTRIM YOURWASTE

Communications is an important part of any waste

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office and kitchen areas to properly educate staff about the waste management program. This includes signage about the program, and new recycling containers that provide clear directions on where waste should be directed.

This process highlighted the importance of equipment in maximizing diversion – every desk should feature a blue bin for paper and black bins for recycling; every boardroom should have paper, can and bottle recycling; every copier station should have paper recycling; and there should be centrally located bins for collecting cans, glass, plastic food and beverage containers, coffee cups and organic food waste. By ensuring accessible collection, education materials can then be used to increase employee participation in the waste management program.

PRODUCT DISPOSAL AND DESTRUCTIONOne area that can have a large impact on Nestlé’s waste management program is their product disposal and destruction. This can result from product being damaged or too much being ordered and each product can have its own waste management issues.

This is where there partnership with Wasteco is important, as Wasteco plays a valuable role in identifying how a product can be disposed of, in some cases, by having the product de-packaged and recycled into specific markets, such as feed for animals. In other cases, de-packaging happens, but the product must then be forwarded to a waste-to-energy facility.

Beyond working with Wasteco on finding ways to de-package, recycle and reuse products, Nestlé also works with its internal sales staff to minimize the potential for product waste. By better managing ordering processes and following a strict regime of reporting waste needs, staff is discouraged from generating product waste.

ZERO-WASTE REPORTING AND MONITORING

By working with Wasteco, Nestlé has been able to develop and implement a zero-waste program that minimizes waste, while driving diversion. In order to understand the impacts of this program and continuously monitor its progress, Wasteco provides a monthly report on Nestlé’s progress.

The report puts Nestlé’s waste management program into simple terms like trees saved, kilowatt hours saved, litres of oil prevented and cubic metres of landfill space saved. And, most importantly for Nestlé’s greenhouse gas reduction targets, it utilizes the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency’s Waste Reduction Model (WARM) that calculates the program’s greenhouse gas emissions and savings in relation to the original baseline.

Overall, Nestlé’s ongoing relationship with Wasteco allows them to not only divert their waste from landfill, but more importantly turn that waste into new resources that can be re-circulated in the economy while minimizing their greenhouse gas emissions.

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NESTLE MONTHLY WASTE MANAGEMENT REPORT

ENERGY FROM WASTE (EFW) STATISTICS JANUARY 2011

kWh of power gernerated from waste collected 23,223

Tons of greenhouses gases prevented 22

Metric tonnes diverted from landfill through energy from waste & recycling 58

GHG REDUCTION JANUARY 2011

GHG prevented by diversion & recycling 88.708

RESOURCES SAVED THROUGH RECYCLING JANUARY 2011

Trees saved 122

kWh of energy saved 29,518

Litres of oil prevented 10,478

Cubic metres of landfill space saved 25

KGS Air pollutants from being released KGS 194

Litres of water saved 189,991

All Formulas are based on EPA WARM data (August 2010)

WASTE COLLECTED3%

N/H PRODUCT DISPOSAL

17%

N/H PRODUCT DESTRUCTION

58%

PAPER0%

CARDBOARD5%

CARDBOARD (PRODUCT

DESTRUCTION) 7%

CANS & BOTTLES0%

SHREDDING0%

ORGANICS10%

MATERIAL WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION

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