What is Coca‑Cola doing to reduce water wastage?
Water is essential to our business, as it is the main ingredient in our products. We are working very hard in all of our plants to make more efficient use of water. We are doing this by setting very specific targets around:
- Using less water and
- Recycling more water.
In our bottling plant in Northern Ireland we have cut water usage by 24% since 2008. A Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) treats effluent water from the production process and a WWTP filter cake is recycled into compost, further reducing waste to landfill.
Under our water stewardship strategy our goal is to return safely to nature an amount of water equivalent to that which we use in all our drinks and their production.
We also believe we have a broader responsibility to replenish water. Across the world we are working with a range of partners to protect and improve water resources and provide access, often for the first time, to clean water to communities.
We are involved in more than 200 projects in over 60 countries. This includes the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) which is our 6 year $30million contribution to provide over 2 million people in Africa with access to clean water by 2015, and working with WWF on fresh water reservoirs. We have committed $23million to WWF to protect some of the world’s most important fresh water basins including the Danube in Europe.
