Company Name: Nestlé Philippines
Company Owner: Kais Marzouki
Company Address: 31 Plaza Drive Rockwell Center Makati City 1200
Official Contact #: 63 2 898 0061
Company Website: https://www.nestle.com.ph/
Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/nestle.ph
Contact Person: Aurora Alipao
Contact #: +632 898 0001
Fax: 63 2 898 0034
Product/Services: Nutrition, Health and Wellness
Corporate Social Responsibility
Nestlé accelerates No Deforestation commitment by implementing 100% satellite monitoring coverage of its global palm oil supply chains
Nestlé today announced its accelerated plan towards reaching the company’s 2020 No Deforestation commitment by becoming the first global food company to implement Starling, a satellite-based service, to monitor 100% of its global palm oil supply chains. Starling was developed by Airbus and The Forest Trust (TFT) as a global verification system evidencing that no deforestation is taking place throughout the supply chain.
Deforestation is a serious and complex issue and addressing it requires the entire industry working together towards greater transparency, inclusiveness, direct supply chain engagement and capacity building throughout the supply chain.
"Nestlé has always been committed to source the raw materials we need to make our products in a responsible manner. In 2010, we made a No Deforestation commitment stating that all our products globally will not be associated with deforestation by 2020," said Magdi Batato, Executive Vice President, Head of Operations, Nestlé S.A.
By 2017, 63% of Nestlé global supply chain was deforestation-free.
"In order to accelerate this journey, we have worked with Airbus and TFT since mid-2016 to embark on a pilot project over the Perak landscape in Malaysia. Starling satellite monitoring is a game changer to achieve transparency in our supply chain and we are pleased to extend this collaboration to cover 100% of Nestlé’s global palm oil supply chains by the end of the year. We will also extend this program to cover our pulp and paper supply chains next year as well as soya at a later stage," he added.
Starling uses cutting-edge technology combining high-resolution radar and optical satellite imagery to provide unbiased year-round monitoring of land cover changes and forest cover disturbances. Data collected along with its analytics enable companies to manage risks and perform field intervention strategies to drive changes.
"Starling is a fully digital service, offering best-in-class machine learning and cloud technologies to provide very precise and near-real time forest cover change information. Terabytes of satellite images are turned into actionable information, to provide our customers with a reliable service to monitor their supply chains and to early identify potential deforestation events," said François Lombard, Head of the Intelligence Business at Airbus Defence and Space.
Starling utilizes Airbus’s high-resolution SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 satellites as well as third-party sensors, which are designed for large geographical areas. With sharp accuracy and detailed resolution, Starling’s reference maps differentiate between production forests that include palm plantations, protected forests and other areas.
Bastien Sachet, CEO, TFT said, “We welcome Nestlé’s commitment to using Starling to monitor 100% of its palm oil supply chain. When we started our No Deforestation journey with Nestlé in 2010, no tools existed for them to effectively monitor their suppliers in this way and a solution had to be created. Now, we are pleased to say, there is a ready and able tool to help companies rid deforestation from their supply chains. We see this milestone as the next step in our journey with Nestlé."
Earlier this year, Nestlé committed to achieve 100% RSPO certified sustainable palm oil by 2023. By December 2018, 100% of Nestlé’s palm oil supply chain, certified or not, will be monitored for deforestation using satellite imagery. In an effort to further increase transparency, Nestlé has made available the names of the direct suppliers and mills that it buys palm oil from. This covers 91% of the total volume of palm oil Nestlé sources annually.
"Our 'eyes in the sky' will monitor our palm oil supply chain 24/7, regardless of their certification status. This will enable us to further disclose publicly what we find, where we choose to suspend non-compliant suppliers, and where we choose to engage and improve the situation. This will come with a request to suppliers to share their concession information, and work within the value chain with our partners to improve based on non-disputable evidences. This information along with our progress reports will be shared with our stakeholders, including consumers, investors and retailers. They will be made available in our Transparency Dashboard to be published on our website by 1 March 2019," said Benjamin Ware, Global Head of Responsible Sourcing, Nestlé S.A.
Nestlé, Green Antz address waste plastic laminates as corporations, LGUs join up
A partnership between Nestlé Philippines and Green Antz Builders, Inc., an innovative social enterprise based in Pulilan, Bulacan which produces alternative construction materials incorporating waste plastic laminates, is addressing an environmental issue while involving communities including schoolchildren in waste collection, and providing livelihood opportunities.
Green Antz, which was established with Nestlé’s support, collaborates with corporations, LGUs and NGOs to establish Green Antz Hubs for the production of eco-bricks using waste plastic laminates which are cheaper to use and offer better insulation. Eco-bricks are much more durable than regular hollow blocks. The production of eco-bricks utilizes compression unlike hollow blocks which are made through moulding. Making eco-bricks involves a proprietary process which hollow blocks do not undergo, and the formulation incorporates a special construction additive which makes eco-bricks stronger, enabling plastic and cement to adhere together.
Other Green Antz products are eco-pavers or pervious pavers, and eco-casts or hollow block-size pre-cast. Undergoing development are eco-panels which are 1 meter by .5 meter concrete panels also incorporating waste laminates, as well as plastic boards and roofing tiles. The products which are manufactured by existing Green Antz Hubs in Pulilan and Plaridel, Bulacan; Bacoor, Cavite; Teresa, Rizal; and Cebu, among other locations, are already in use for the construction of homes, schoolhouses and day care centers.
The enterprise also currently has partners in Batangas; Catanduanes, Legaspi, Tabaco and Naga in the Bicol region, Vigan, Ilocos Sur; and El Nido in Palawan. Corporate partners include Nestlé, Aboitiz Power, Republic Cement, Hope in a Bottle, Ayala Land, Pilipinas Shell, and Ten Knots in El Nido. Talks are ongoing with Coca-Cola, Megawide, Human Nature, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, and Nespresso.
Rommel Benig, president and CEO of Green Antz, is a UP Diliman mechanical engineer, board topnotcher, and former Nestlé Philippines employee who has taken to heart the philosophy of Creating Shared Value (CSV) practiced by Nestlé. “We are a social business, meaning we are pursuing economic value or profit while simultaneously addressing societal problems, aligned with the CSV model. The model we are replicating is the social franchising model, similar to the commercial franchising model except that there are no royalties. When we partner with a company, it sponsors the funding and together we identify a beneficiary which will manage the operation of a Green Antz Hub with Green Antz overseeing it,” Rommel explains.
An outstanding example of a Green Antz collaboration with an LGU is one with the municipality of Plaridel headed by Mayor Jocell Vistan. The local government, in lieu of accepting monetary payment for services rendered to constituents, requires them instead to pay in the form of discarded plastic bottles and laminates. The wastes are then used to manufacture construction materials with which day care centers, classrooms and walkways are being built in the municipality. Through this effort, Plaridel is solving the problem of plastic and laminate wastes.
“Nestlé is our corporate sponsor, helping us in product development and linking us with other companies to create more awareness and more demand for the products. Nestlé is also helping us to expand this concept in other locations, having committed to establish five to six additional community hubs of Green Antz,” Rommel says.
An outstanding example of a Green Antz collaboration with an LGU is one with the municipality of Plaridel headed by Mayor Jocell Vistan. The local government, in lieu of accepting monetary payment for services rendered to constituents, requires them instead to pay in the form of discarded plastic bottles and laminates. The wastes are then used to manufacture construction materials with which day care centers, classrooms and walkways are being built in the municipality. Through this effort, Plaridel is solving the problem of plastic and laminate wastes.
“Nestlé is our corporate sponsor, helping us in product development and linking us with other companies to create more awareness and more demand for the products. Nestlé is also helping us to expand this concept in other locations, having committed to establish five to six additional community hubs of Green Antz,” Rommel says.
Nestlé Philippines Corporate Affairs Executive Jess Reyes recalls that he challenged Rommel when he opted for entrepreneurship to address the problem of waste plastic laminates with a real-world solution. Happily, Rommel is now doing so through Green Antz, engaging a growing number of sectors nationwide in the process. Nestlé’s involvement, says Jess, is driven by its purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.
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