March 2023
To grow, roast and pack our coffee and tea, a large amount of energy is needed. Yet, to ensure a liveable planet for generations to come, we must reduce emissions. Read on to learn about how we’re optimising our operations to minimise our footprint.
Minimising Footprint
At JDE Peet’s we’re committed to creating a better future - one where our streets, streams, lakes and oceans are free from pollution, where the energy we use is clean, as is the air we breathe. That means we must reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to help combat the climate and ecological crises whilst supporting our suppliers and meeting the demand for our coffee and tea.
We’ve set out to reduce our Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 25% and our Scope 3 emissions by 12.5% by 2030, against a 2020 baseline. These targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative, so our reduction efforts are grounded in climate science.
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Our direct emissions resulting from activities under our control, such as on-site fuel combustion and company vehicles. |
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Indirect emissions from electricity and steam we’ve purchased and used in our operations. |
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Indirect emissions that occur in our value chain, that sit outside our operations, such as employee commuting and the use of our coffee and tea. |
More than 90% of our Scope 1 and 2 emissions occur in our manufacturing facilities. If we’re to meet our target, we need to operate efficiently, drastically reduce our fossil fuel use, and find and implement clean renewable energy solutions across all our facilities. This presents a challenge and an opportunity to optimise our production processes.
Our goal is ambitious, but we are ready for the challenge and excited about the benefits this will create for people, the planet and our business.
The process for making instant coffee is similar to making coffee in a cafetiere. Energy goes into heating water and producing steam to extract from the ground coffee the flavours that delight our consumers. The process leaves us with spent coffee grounds, like the grounds you collect in your coffee filter machine at home - but an industrial quantity of them.
So far, for five out of six of our instant coffee factories, we’ve invested in a spent grounds burner and by 2024 we will install one in the final factory in Asia. This should reduce our emissions by a further 20,000 tCO2e. That’s the equivalent energy used to boil water for more than 950 million cups of coffee or tea!
The spent grounds burner also uses waste coffee grounds to generate heat that goes straight back into the process, reducing waste and our use of non-renewable energy. In Joure, the spent grounds burner produces at least 20% of the energy we use on site, contributing to JDE NL reaching their target of zero Scope 2 emissions.
Dyfrig Davies, Engineering Manager at the JDE Coffee Manufacturing Factory in Banbury, UK
In Turkey, where 70% of the world’s hazelnut production is located, we now use hazelnut husks that would otherwise go to waste to generate energy, rather than burning coal. This has reduced emissions by 48% and 8,800 tCO2e across two tea production sites.
We believe, with our ongoing R&D, roadmaps and investment plans, that we can improve the operational efficiency of our factories, deliver Net Zero Factory designs, and benefit our communities.
Laurenz Alpers, Global Energy Engineer