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CHEP unveils global 2025

Sustainability Goals

CHEP, one of the world’s most sustainable to build regenerative supply chains that do more
logistics businesses and a pioneer of good than harm and become ‘positive’.”
circular economy principles, has unveiled
its 2025 global Sustainability Goals, a Th e new 2025 global sustainability targets
roadmap for building regenerative supply set by CHEP parent company Brambles aim
chains that help repair damage to the to restore nature, tackle climate change and
planet. “We believe the time has come to create shared social value. Th e company has
transform how the world moves products committed to replenishing the resources it uses
to people,” says Hermann Haupt, Vice- and creating more positive impacts beyond
president of CHEP sub-Saharan Africa. its communities for the benefi t of future
“We’ll be the company delivering the generations. Th e CHEP sustainability strategy
supply chains the world needs for the Hermann Haupt, consists of Planet Positive, Business Positive
Vice-president of CHEP
future.” and Communities Positive targets.
sub-Saharan Africa.
Haupt said that pioneering regenerative Among global Planet Positive targets are
supply chains meant breaking the link between consumption undertakings not only to ensure 100 percent sustainable
and harm to the environment and society in order to sourcing of CHEP timber indefi nitely, which the company
restore, replenish and create more value for society and achieved as part of its 2020 goals, but to go beyond that
the environment than businesses take out. “To make this and allow two trees to grow for every one used for pallets –
change, we need to evolve our sustainability model. In the adding millions of new trees by 2030.
past, we have focused on reducing the negative impacts of
supply chains to make them ‘better’. Going forward, we want CHEP also has committed to using renewable electricity
across its global operations and to becoming carbon neutral
by 2025. Another of the company’s international goals is
to ensure no product materials are sent to landfi lls and to
introduce closed-loop products using 30 percent recycled or
upcycled plastic waste.

Worldwide Business Positive targets include doubling
customer collaborations from 250 to 500, having at least
40 percent women in management roles and reducing
business injury frequency rates by 25 percent.

Th e CHEP Communities Positive targets across
the global operation include collaborating with food
banks to serve rescued food to 10 million people
and impacting one million people to become circular
economy change makers.

L O GI S T I CS NEWS and working together,” says Haupt. “However, we have a
“Th ese are global targets and the transformation won’t
be easy. It will only be made possible by all of us joining in

long track record of achieving the unlikely when it comes to
sustainability and we’re confi dent we can do it again.” •

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