Environmental overview
Minimising our environmental impact across the whole value chain is a core target for us. We’ve been setting annual improvement targets since 2004 and are working towards ambitious 2020 goals.
In 2016, Coca‑Cola HBC committed to new sustainability targets for 2020 to reinforce the sustainable growth of our business and inspire a better future.
As part of the Coca‑Cola HBC, at Coca‑Cola HBC Armenia we consider sustainability a prerequisite for our long-term business goals. Thus, we have integrated sustainability and environment protection into every level of our operations. Our aim is to decrease energy consumption, emissions, water consumption and wastewater treatment, as well as increase selective packaging waste recovery and recycling in our daily practice. Through meetings with our stakeholders and regular auditing, we identify the most important environmental impacts of our activities, so as to focus our efforts on the areas where we have the greatest impact and can therefore make the most significant contribution. These areas are:
- Water stewardship
- Energy and climate protection
- Packaging and recycling
We set performance targets for each of these three areas and report our progress as part of a larger group in our Sustainability report. Our bottling plant is also regularly audited against the environmental standards of The Coca‑Cola Company.
As well as reducing our own impacts, we work with others to address broader sustainability issues. We work with government agencies, NGOs and others to support environmental conservation and education. In particular, we focus on protecting local watersheds and promoting packaging.