Where We're Going in FY '09

  • Our goal is to achieve a 10% reduction in energy usage per sales dollar by the end of FY ’09 in our Specialty Coffee Business Unit, as compared to FY ’07.
  • Our goal is to reduce waste-to-landfill tonnage by 2% per sales dollar by the end of FY ’09 in our Specialty Coffee Business Unit, as compared to FY ’08 numbers.
  • Leveraging the analytical framework of accepted Environmental Management System procedures, we will analyze our operational environmental impacts and work to develop baseline energy use and solid waste
    metrics for individual processes and functional groups.
  • We will introduce a new enterprise-wide initiative aimed at better understanding, mitigating, and reducing our carbon footprint. The initiative will be anchored in a new enterprise statement on climate change and include grants, employee incentives, operational initiatives, and the continued purchase of renewable energy certificates to offset our estimated emissions.
  • We hope to complete the packaging product life-cycle analyses project begun in FY ’08.
  • We hope to expand our recycling program to include the production scrap and other waste generated from the packaging of our 10-oz. and 12-oz. bags of coffee.

 



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Where We've Been in FY '08
Where We're Going in FY '09
Sources of Energy
Our Thermal Footprint
Our Carbon Footprint
Changing Climate Change
Waste Reduction
The Keurig® Single-Cup Brewing System
The ecotainer™
Packaging Film


 


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