Our Promise to the future
We’re setting clear sustainability targets under each of our three pillars and holding ourselves accountable for achieving them, measuring our progress along the way.
Our Sustainability Pillars
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Circular Economy
Our participation in the circular economy is all about maximising the recycled content of our products and ensuring they can be continually recycled to minimise waste and pollution.
Focus areas:
Recycled content
Recyclable packaging
Recyclable substrates
Certification
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Climate Change
Addressing climate change is an important issue for the world, Orora, our customers, our investors and the end-users of our products, so we’re reducing gross greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across our entire business.
Focus areas:
GHG reduction
Energy efficiency
Renewable energy
Climate risk analysis
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Community
We're enriching the lives of our teams and our communities by protecting safety, health and human rights, and championing diversity, equity and inclusion.
Focus areas:Safety & health Diversity
Equity & inclusion
Human rights and supply chain
Responsible sourcing
We're a proven leader in the Circular Economy
Our promise: 60% recycled content* for Orora glass beverage containers by 2025
Our Progress:
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Orora's Cullet Beneficiation Plant in Gawler was completed, with full commissioning in August 2022. This enables Orora to increase the amount of recycled content in glass packaging manufactured at the site and utilises more recycled glass during packaging production. This will deliver sustainability benefits, including a reduction in the amount of CO2e emissions (and energy use), in virgin materials deployed to manufacture glass, and diverting waste away from landfill.
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Orora has achieved 50% recycled content (cullet) in glass, a significant increase on the 38% achieved in FY23.
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Orora has achieved an average of 72% recycled content in the aluminium flat sheets and coils used to manufacture beverage cans, an increase on the 57% achieved in FY23.
*Pre and post-consumer cullet
Circular Economy
Sustainable Glass Recycling with Orora Glass
Glass recycling is an important step within the manufacturing process, where used glass packaging is taken to create new glass products that help create a sustainable circular economy.
Today, glass waste is used to create new glass bottles through the process of beneficiation. Here at Orora we collect recycled glass from container deposit schemes, which is then processed on site at our Glass Beneficiation Plant to create cullet.
Watch this video to learn more about Orora’s strategy to creating sustainable glass packaging!
We’re committed to addressing climate change
Our promise: Net zero emissions by 2050. 40% reduction in emissions by 2035
Our progress:
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Orora is committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 for Scope 1 & 2*
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We have an interim goal of 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.
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Our well defined plan to achieve this goal includes:
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Increased use of recycled glass cullet to leverage greenhouse gas reducing benefits
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Implementing less greenhouse gas intensive furnace technology
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Procuring greenhouse gas-free electricity for our business globally
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Our pathway between 2035 and 2050 will be firmed up over time and will require advances in technology.
*Scope 1 emissions are direct emissions from owned or controlled sources. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energy.
Climate Change
Orora fires up new oxyfuel wine glass furnace
Orora is proud to announce it has commenced operation of one of Australia’s most sustainable wine glass furnaces in Gawler, South Australia.
The newly rebuilt furnace is powered in part by oxyfuel technology drawn from our very own onsite oxygen plant. This exciting step moves Orora’s furnace into the top 10% of energy efficient furnaces worldwide.
Orora’s new oxyfuel furnace is expected to deliver significant sustainability benefits including a reduction in nitrogen oxides of up to 80%, CO2 reduction of approximately 25% and total furnace energy reduction of up to 30%.
We’re working to enrich our communities
Our promise: Prioritising action for our people and our communities
Our progress:
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Significant improvement of safety performance across the Group with Recordable Case Injuries decreasing by 43% and Lost Time Injuries decreasing by 38%, compared to FY23.
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Implementation of key initiatives driven by the 2023 Voice of Orora survey, including a focus on clear communication, collaboration and teamwork.
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Cultural Intelligence workshops held with teams designed to identify successful ways of working.
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Implementation of Orora’s Human Rights Policy, supporting our Human Rights Due Diligence and Supplier Assurance initiatives.
Community
Orora helps share a Coke with the Firies
During the devastating bushfires that occurred in Australia in the summer of 2019-20, the teams at Coca-Cola Amatil (Amatil) and Coca-Cola South Pacific (CCSP) launched special limited-edition cans to celebrate and thank the firefighters and frontline volunteers who worked tirelessly throughout the bushfire crisis.
100,000 of these unique cans were produced. The cans were not available for sale but were donated to firefighters, volunteer fire organisations and fire-affected communities.
The ‘Share a Coke with the Firies’ campaign was inspired by the popular ‘Share a Coke’ summer promotion of 2019-20, for which Orora produced over 325 million cans.
Memberships and associations
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Sustainable Glass Recycling with Orora Beverage
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