Low-carbon age: the beverage industry launched the Green Revolution – drinks, low-carbon – Food Industry

In the near future, consumers buy a bottle at Wal-Mart PepsiCo May clearly see that bottle of Coke in all aspects from production to sales by the total content of carbon dioxide emissions, even including water use and air pollution index … … In fact, this change, and current Beverages Industry and the retail giant had launched a “green revolution” relevant.

Currently, Wal-Mart is developing a measure to require suppliers of its products as “carbon footprint”, water use and air pollution index, so that consumers of their efforts to reduce emissions at a glance. If this plan is implemented, the retail supply chain supermarket will bring a revolutionary change, this will encourage all suppliers directly from the “voluntary emission reduction” to “must reduce emissions,” change. Otherwise, the supplier will lose these markets.

Beverage industry has taken a lead. Recently, the China Beverage Industry Association of matchmaking, the Pepsi-Cola, Coca-Cola Other beverage giant, Wal-Mart and other retailers began to explore a green from production to consumption chain.

This is just the beginning. China Beverage Industry Association, said the future sales and production is no longer a measure of the value of the domestic beverage business the sole criterion, they will drink domestic production and sales system to add a new assessment, namely: industry chain carbon footprint.

Also the industry in China Beverage Industry Association’s “2010 China’s beverage industry green summit” to further revealed that, at present, countries are stepping up the drafting of “clean production standards?? Drink manufacturing industry.”

“The release of both the industry standard, or national compulsory standards project, indicate that the beverage industry will follow the low-carbon direction.” Oriental drinks Iger told analysts Chen Jing, “China’s Sankei Shimbun” reporter, the new situation, industry competition, to drink beverages and equipment enterprises, Raw materials , A higher demand for packaging requirements, high efficiency, energy conservation, energy, cleaner production is the future trend of development.

In the past few years, the Beverage Industry Association, the industry was the first national census on pollution sources, to develop a “water beverage manufacturing scale” and “comprehensive energy drink manufacturers limit” of industry standards, strengthen the business assessment of water assessment, guide enterprises to increase investment in cleaner production. In the future, including relevant standards, including the carbon footprint will be introduced gradually.

“After 20 years of China’s beverage industry, the average annual increase of over 20% of the rapid development, to the end of last year, production has broken through 80 million tons.” Zhao Yali China Beverage Industry Association said Chinese beverage companies face shortage of resources, environment worsening pollution problems, thus gradually become green production goal pursued by many companies.

“2010 Green Summit beverage industry in China,” the message that, at present, the beverage industry and retailers are exploring how Cooperation , The “green” concept extends to the product logistics, procurement, distribution and consumption, and explore the “building beverage products from production to consumption of green chain” in new ways.

Last June, PepsiCo, Inc. production in China, Chongqing, the first overseas market, “Green Factory.” Pepsi Greater China (drinks), President Wen-Kai Lu said that before the creation of green plants, Pepsi bottling plants in all the Greater China region have started to explore cleaner production. “Over the past 5 years, 40% has been made in saving water and energy performance, which saves water, 15.6 million tons, equivalent to 1.5 Lake; saving 649.7 million kwh, annual electricity consumption by household 4000 calculation, households use enough 16.2425 one year. “Lujie Shao said.

“The next few years, we will invest two billion U.S. dollars in China to promote business development in China.” Coca-Cola also said Li Xiaoyun, vice president of Greater China, enterprises are still very concerned about the logistics, packaging and energy.

Not only foreign beverage giants, many Chinese enterprises to join local drinks.

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