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Food Waste Global Summit

LCA Tool Launched

“Fresher for Longer” Programme

Thought Leadership: Scope 3 Emissions

Infection Control & Green Cleaning

Podcast #5

Soap For Hope

March 2015

Sealed Air Addresses Food Waste at Global Summit

Sealed Air participated in the recent Global Food Safety Initiative’s (GFSI) conference in Kuala Lumpur, Ma-

laysia, March 3-5. The 2015 conference, which welcomed experts and food service, retail, food and beverage

manufacturers from more than 60 countries worldwide, chose the theme “Food Safety: A Shared Responsibil-

ity.”

“Food safety and food waste are very important items in this century

because millions of people still die due to malnutrition or food poi-

soning, especially in developing regions” said Ilham Kadri, Presi-

dent, Diversey Care. “GFSI’s conference allows us to address the

issues of food safety and food waste, and enhance the ability to

feed the world nutritiously, safely and sustainably while minimizing

environmental, social and economic impacts.”

Sealed Air moderated a breakout session titled “Food safety driving sustainable business growth,” which

highlighted the issue of food waste. Dr. Ronald Cotterman, Vice President of Sustainability, spoke during the

session and noted key facts surrounding food waste. Cotterman discussed how Sealed Air’s innovations in

packaging, cold chain management, and partner education can help manufacturers and suppliers address the

food waste issue from the start. The amount of food wasted is estimated to be more than four times the

amount needed to feed the 800 million people who are malnourished. Innovations and partnerships such as

those provided by Sealed Air can impact the food waste problem at its source.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Tool Launched for

Fluids Market

As Sustainability grows in importance as a means by which companies and consumers evaluate prod-

ucts, it is critical for Sealed Air to understand the environmental impact of its products and be able to

demonstrate that benefits vs competitors. One of the techniques developed for this purpose is Life

Cycle Assessment (LCA), which can help identify opportunities to improve the environmental perfor-

mance of products across their life cycle.

Sealed Air’s Sustainability group recently worked in conjunction with members of the Fluids Market

team and Quantis International to develop an LCA tool focused on this market. Although this tool is

not a full cradle-to-grave analysis, it does take into account such important steps as primary packag-

ing, secondary packaging, transportation, product refrigeration, and end-of-life disposal. It aims to ulti-

mately provide for better-informed decisions as it relates to environmental impact.

Training on the tool’s use and interpretation of results was con-

ducted in March, and the Fluids team is now ready to incorpo-

rate comparative package scenario results into its value propo-

sition to potential customers. Although some gaps exist in actu-

al competitive data, the Sustainability team expects those gaps

to be filled as the tool is used and better data is located. When

asked how she sees Sustainability and this tool helping her

team achieve its growth goals, Myra Foster, Executive Director

– Global Fluids, commented, “The tool supports our value prop-

osition of source reduction and space savings for the processor customer, the distributor and the final

end user in food service. It helps us build on the narrative that Sealed Air is the Sustainability Compa-

ny and our solutions offer measurable benefits that prove it.”

For any questions regarding Quantis or this tool, please contact Phillip Crowder or Laura Passerini.

Sealed Air Supports the “Fresher for Longer” Program

In the UK, we throw away 7 million tonnes of food and drink every year, costing the average household £470 a

year. Fresher for Longer is an exciting new programme, enabling secondary schools students to reduce waste

and protect our environment, while saving money. The 13 year old students have been educated on how pack-

aging protects food and keeps it fresher for longer. Using the messages of Fresher for Longer, the programme

has enabled student teams to create their own behaviour change campaigns to get their community sourcing,

storing, cooking food, and managing leftovers in a sustainable manner.

Sealed Air has partnered with the Alfreton Grange Art College to

conduct workshop sessions, interactive learning activities and on-

going support. From January to March 2015, with the help of

Sealed Air, student teams have been designing and implementing

their campaigns. This student-led approach leads to projects that

are creative, fun and impactful, as well as helping to build the sus-

tainable leaders of tomorrow. Students designed a range of prod-

ucts to include:

‘Big Savers’: a meal planning and shopping app, including meal

suggestions made from leftover food;

‘PP Food Tips’: an app to help consumers on where to store food to keep it fresher for longer;

‘Portion Caution’: measuring tools and packaging with portioning to help consumers only cook and eat the

correct portions;

‘Food waste Frenzy’: a website to educate consumers on reusing leftovers to cut food waste. They also

designed reusable meat packaging.

To widen the students’ experience during the project, a Sealed Air customer visit was organised to Greencore

Prepared Meals in Sheffield. The students had the opportunity to take a tour around the quiche manufacturing

area and see first-hand how Greencore manages their raw materials to minimise any potential food waste.

Lubna Edwards with Alfreton Grange Students

We all are Scope 3 for someone else. This was the conclusion at the 58th LCA Discussion Fo-

rum on the theme: Company LCA: How to measure the corporate environmental footprint along

the full value chain?

Scope 3 emissions are all the indirect emissions generated by the operations and services con-

nected to our value chain, product and services. They may come from the transportation of raw

materials and finished products, travels, employee commuting, energy required to use our prod-

ucts, disposal., etc.

Laura Passerini, LCA Specialist for Sealed Air presented

how we approach the complex theme of measuring our

Scope 3 and how we help our customers save energy

thanks to the use of our innovative solutions.

As a global manufacturing company having thousands of customers spread on the globe, the

measurement of the emissions associated to our products use is a true challenge. The level of

customization of products and systems may be so different that a global overview is feasible on-

ly starting with high level estimates.

It is possible to understand and measure specific processes working side by side with custom-

ers, understanding their needs and optimizing the processes.

The audience appreciated Sealed Air’s clear approach to such a complex problem and how we

work with our customers in making the best of our products while improving the efficiency of their

operations, saving energy, reducing their emissions and reducing our indirect emissions.

Once again Sealed Air demonstrated to be among the top companies in the commitment to pro-

mote a sustainable value chain, which in 2014 made us gain a top position in the S&P 500 CDP.

Thought Leadership: Scope 3 Emissions

Did You Know? A life cycle assessment is required to calculate a product carbon footprint. The footprint

measures greenhouse gas emissions associated with the product from cradle to grave.

The carbon footprint of a 6-pack of Fat Tire® Amber Ale , during its life cycle, is 3,188.8 grams

of CO2 equivalents (g CO2 e).

Food For Thought...

Sealed Air lead a session is to explore the intersec-

tions between sustainability, disinfection, energy

management, and waste prevention at an infection

control conference in Vancouver, March 5th. Dan

Daggett, Director of Sustainability, helped attendees

understand how to balance sustainability initiatives with infection control.

With the world’s population expected to be over 9 billion people by 2050, environmental and social chal-

lenges will become more significant. Access to clean water, energy, food, and other resources will be in-

creasingly constrained and disrupted due to environmental and political events. Organizations are inte-

grating sustainability into their operations and practices to be more efficient and cost effective given these

constraints. Healthcare facilities are becoming more energy efficient, preventing waste, conserving water,

and using products with better environmental profiles. Sometimes however the requirements infection pre-

vention and control are seen to be at odds with environmental objectives, indeed infection control profes-

sionals are sometimes left to “justify” controls that run contrary to the organizations desire to go green. Bal-

ancing these initiatives against the core healthcare responsibility of disease prevention, treatment, and pa-

tient care is critical.

Infection Control & Green Cleaning

Sealed Air packaging solutions provide added value and help reduce the chance of food waste. If less food is wasted, more is available to eat and less of our earth’s resources are used.

Sustainability News is bought to you by the Sealed Air Corporate Sustainability Team

Sustainability Podcast Sustainability is a key part of how we position our business to our

stakeholders. But what is it, and how do we describe sustainability to

others? To help you answer these questions, the Corporate Sustaina-

bility Group has developed a series of podcasts for Sealed Air employ-

ees.

In this 13-minute podcast:

Terry Grill, Sustainability Director-Americas, discusses sustainability in general and how it applies to Food Care.

Steve Gruidl, Global Key Account Director for Coca Cola, explains how he gained access to more leaders within his cus-tomer's organization using a meeting focused on sustainability and consumer attitudes.

Andy Stratton, Retail Sales Specialist for UK and Ireland, discusses a real and practical application of a sustainable packaging solution at Tesco.

Listen to the fifth sustainability podcast here. Podcast programs are for internal use only; please do not share them out-

side of Sealed Air.

On March 7, Ron Cotterman, VP of Sustainability, visited the Indonesian island of Batam in order to see first-hand

Sealed Air’s Soap for Hope™ program in action in the villages of Oasis Village and Jodoh Pasar.

Like many places in Batam, these villages have dismal living conditions: children playing in trash heaps; rampant pollu-

tion; waterways full of sewage; no fresh water supply – the list goes on. It’s in places like these, defined by poverty and

a lack of access to basic hygiene, that Sealed Air’s signature livelihood initiatives can make such a difference. Under

the Soap for Hope™ business model, Sealed Air partners with our customer hotels to teach at-risk communities how to

recycle used soap from the hotels for personal consumption and distribution. Thanks to the profound commitment of

our employees and our customers to create a better way for life, the Soap for Hope™ program is creating new opportu-

nities for livelihood, better hygiene, and a local, sustainable model for re-

ducing waste.

Stefan Phang, Director of Sustainability and CSR in AMAT, served as Cot-

terman’s tour guide on the trip. The first stop on the trip was Oasis Village,

one of Sealed Air’s Soap for Hope™ villages, where used soap from part-

nering customer hotels is recycled and then distributed to the local com-

munity and two nearby villages. Following a demonstration of the Soap for

Hope™ recycling process by 11 ‘Soap for Hope™ mothers,’ Cotterman

and Phang helped the villagers distribute the recycled bars of soap

throughout the community. They then went to the neighboring village of

Jodoh Pasar, where Fadli, the business manager for Sealed Air’s hospitality customers in the Indonesian islands of Ba-

tam and Bintan and Sealed Air’s Soap for Hope™ leader for Batam, gathered the children in the village center. Fadli

gave the children a hand-washing demonstration, after which they all received a bar of soap to take home.

Soap for Hope™ in Action: Batam