Reporting period and entities covered
The PIUK Environmental Sustainability Report ("the Report") provides data and information for the period January-December 2007, except where specifically noted. Data within the Report, unless otherwise stated, covers all of our UK sites and facilities. In some sections, for example on sustainable supply chain, data will cover a wider scope - and this will be clearly stated. Unless otherwise stated, any text or graphics throughout the report relate to the activities of PIUK - not our parent company PepsiCo Inc, or other PepsiCo businesses. PIUK includes Quaker, Tropicana, Copella, Walkers and their sub-brands. Pepsi, 7UP and Gatorade are produced, sold and distributed by Britvic plc.
Following stakeholder feedback, we have included a small number of case studies on PepsiCo Inc activities on water and energy saving. These are delineated from the main report text in blue coloured boxes. Following stakeholder feedback we have also included a selection of data and case-studies on Pepsi Cola production by Britvic plc.
Scope of data
Data are collected twelve times a year, by the Central Sustainability team, directly from the team of seven Site Sustainability Managers and three Facilities Managers. The Central team collate and review these data in spreadsheets, which are then published for the Vice President of Operations and his team to review and drive performance against. The data for Rotterdam and Zeebrugge are collected in a similar way by our PepsiCo European counterparts, with the data being then provided to the Central Sustainability team once a year. PIUK has been collecting certain of these data (e.g. energy) since 1999.
In 2007, all our 7 current UK manufacturing sites reported environmental performance data and this is represented in the report. In figures 5, 6, 12, 13 and 15 - showing the PIUK carbon footprint, energy use, water use and waste - we have also included the share of the footprint or impact of PepsiCo manufacturing in Rotterdam and Zeebrugge, produced for the UK market (e.g. for each facility we have included the energy, water or waste use or generation associated with their production destined for the UK market). Data in some sections, for example on product-level carbon footprints, cover a wider scope - and this is clearly stated.
We were not able to verify or include in this report energy, water and waste data from several overseas PepsiCo production sites that supplied small volumes to the UK market during 2007:
- Because of a fire in 2007, production of Walkers Lights was temporarily transferred to Veurne in Belgium (equivalent to 0.24% of PepsiCo production for the UK). This site also supplied further Walkers products during the year (equivalent to 0.03% of PepsiCo production for the UK);
- Hermes in France provides overflow capacity for our juice production site in Zeebrugge (equivalent to 1.41% of PepsiCo production for the UK);
- Borgloon in Belgium also produces small quantities of ambient juice (equivalent to 0.07% of PepsiCo production for the UK);
- Naked smoothies, introduced to the UK in late 2007, are produced in the United States (equivalent to 0.004% of PepsiCo production for the UK);
- Nobby's Nuts are produced in Zandaam in the Netherlands (equivalent to 0.44% of PepsiCo production for the UK);
- PJ Kick was produced in Hamburg, Germany (equivalent to 0.08% of PepsiCo production for the UK) before production ceased;
- A PepsiCo facility in Canada provided overflow capacity on Snack a Jacks for one month in 2007 (equivalent to 0.01% of PepsiCo production for the UK);
- Silea in Italy manufactured Gatorade for the UK market (equivalent to 0.17% of PepsiCo production for the UK);
- Because of changes in PIUK, our production site in Newark closed and did not submit any data through our corporate reporting. During the time Newark operated it produced 1.68% of PepsiCo production for the UK;
- In addition, we have not included data from two sales offices in Ireland (Dublin and Drogheda), our satellite depot at Bellshill, or our various trans-shipment points around the UK. It was not possible to collect data from these locations, but we will endeavour to include them in our data next year.
We did not systematically collect data from third-party companies that manufacture or pack our products, for example Britvic plc. Based on stakeholder feedback, we have separately listed a small amount of data on Pepsi Cola, bottled in the UK by Britvic. These data are not included in our corporate totals or key performance graphs. For further information on the environmental performance of Britvic, and the products they manufacture, go to their website.
We did not collect data from third-party companies that distribute our products. We have also included energy, water and waste data for products that we have manufactured in the UK for export to other markets. The most significant of these is at Cupar, our sole UK production site for Quaker, where 48% of the volume produced is exported. In addition other PIUK sites exported 2,680 tonnes of finished products, equivalent to 0.58% of PIUK production volume. Our Lincoln site also exported 7,140 tonnes of Quavers pellets to other PepsiCo companies - equivalent to 1.54% of PIUK production volume in 2007. When other PepsiCo business units choose to report in future, we will work with them to agree a common approach, and avoid double-counting.
Quality of data
We have Site Sustainability Managers in place at all our manufacturing sites, a Central Sustainability Team, and are developing an Environmental Management System. We have implemented internal metrics and scorecards, have 100% corporate reporting on energy and water, and all plants will be ISO 14001 accredited by the end of 2008. Comparability of data from year to year may be affected by changes in the number and attributes of PIUK facilities, changes in the methodology for determining certain data and continual improvements in our performance measurement systems. Although we are confident in the overall reliability we recognise that some site level variations in data collection methodologies may exist. This is minimised through providing training to sites as well as through communications with the sites and business units.
For a detailed explanation of our data definitions, collection methods, and basis of calculation please see the PDF of the report.
