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Shoprite expands solar PV project

Courtesy Cape Business News

THE SHOPRITE Group now generates enough
electricity to power over 1,100 households
(12,300 MWh of electricity) a year from solar
energy, following the installation of rooftop PV
(photovoltaic) panels at 19 sites in South Africa and
Namibia.
The Group has also fitted 649 solar panels to
the roofs of its refrigerated trucks, which generate
760 MWh annually – enough power to run 1,040
refrigerators for a full year. These allow drivers
to switch o truck ignitions at delivery locations,
reducing noise and exhaust pollution, while keeping
the cold chain intact.
There are now 18 stores throughout South an agreement which will see the Group procure
Africa and Namibia in the Group that harness the 434,000 MWh of renewable energy per year for
power of the sun for their operations. “Apart from the next seven years,” says Sanjeev Raghubir,
these solar panel installations, we have also signed Sustainability Manager for the Shoprite Group. •

Hershey to get tough with suppliers on sustainability

Courtesy Supply Chain Digest

FOOD GIANT Hershey recently announced a new Under the new policy, Hershey said it will now
No Deforestation Policy, part of a strategy to meet mandate that its suppliers publish the policies and
a goal of ending any deforestation across its supply procedures they use to help prevent deforestation
chain by 2030. Supply categories in focus with the and peatland loss, and also how they will reduce
policy include cocoa, palm oil, pulp, paper and soy, human rights violations. The new rules also say
which Hershey says represent the supply chains Hershey suppliers must protect the rights of
with “greatest risk of contributing to deforestation.” indigenous peoples and local communities to give
Hershey said that in the past, its approach to or withhold their consent to development on their
combat deforestation used a “commodity-by- lands.
commodity” mindset. With the new strategy, it will The new policies state: “Suppliers must meet and
take a more “holistic view” of all of its agricultural communicate these requirements throughout their
supply chains. supply chains at a corporate group level to ensure
compliance by direct and indirect suppliers and raw
material producers.”
There is more, according to the UK’s
SupplyManagement.com website. Hershey suppliers
must also establish environmental monitoring
and human rights due diligence systems, non-
compliance and grievance procedures. In addition,
they must create “credible” independent verification
systems and training programs within their own
operations, third party suppliers and raw material
producers.
Hershey said suppliers that are not compliant
with the No Deforestation Policy in any of their
operations could be suspended or removed as
sources of supply for the company. •

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