2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT &
CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY
Aakriti Sharma UM15001
Alisha Johney UM15002
Aditi Chaturvedi UM15003
Adarsh Behre UM15004
Abhirup Chakrabarti UM15005
Tea and Coffee Industry
GROUP 1
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3. CODE OF CONDUCT
The Code can include commitments in each of the following areas:
Child labour, voluntary employment/forced labour and human trafficking,
migrant labour, abuse, etc.
Continuous review and
enhancements
Supplier Code of Conduct to reflect the
conventions of the International
Labour Organization and other
recognized standards.
Supply chain traceability
This require suppliers to disclose the
location of facilities producing raw
materials and the origin of the
materials within their supply chains, if
requested.
4. TEA AND COFFEE INDUSTRY IN INDIA
UTZ code of conduct
Co-founded by the Dutch coffee roaster Ahold
Coffee Company in 1997
Aims to create an open and transparent
marketplace for socially and environmentally
responsible agricultural products.
5. RAW MATERIALS
Companies develop sustainable supply chains.
Companies want to keep that impact positive by helping grow the industry while
developing sustainable farming methods that are scalable and commercially viable.
Mars Inc. have been sourcing 100 percent of their coffee from
Rainforest Alliance and UTZ certified sources.
Certification also helps them demonstrate these values to their
customers
Companies like TATA always keep certification in utmost
priority.
All estates of TATA are triple certified: UTZ, RA and SA 8000, a
re-affirmation of the TATA commitment to the environment,
quality and people.
6. RESPONSIBLE SOURCING
Most of the companies in the tea & coffee industry prefer third party
verifications of all the required standards to make sure they source
responsibly.
Examples of companies with industry best practices
7. RESPONSIBLE SOURCING
Responsible sourcing is undertaken by companies in the tea &
coffee industry by working with suppliers who can meet and
strictly adhere to the ethical and sustainable standards &
specifications laid down by a company.
Rigorous process
of selection of
suppliers
Audits of
suppliers
Acknowledgemen
t process for
responsible
suppliers
Training &
certification
programs for the
suppliers
Verification of
supply chains
8. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PRACTICES FOLLOWED IN TEA
INDUSTRY
Wind Mill
Hydro Electric Plant
Sustainable moisture
control plant
Tea being a very delicate perennial plant is sensitive to
small manipulation in temperature and precipitation.
In the last 60 years in Assam, a primary tea-
growing region in India, rainfall has fallen
by more than a fifth and minimum
temperatures have risen by one degree to
19.5C12.
Climate change is also expected to increase
the number of pests and diseases affecting
tea plants.
Climate Changes Faced by Tea
Industry
9. BENCHMARKING PRACTICES
Best
Practices
• Following Standards of Sustainable Agriculture
Centre
• Using Energy efficient tractors
• Using Organic routes for distribution of produce
• Carrying out environmental impact assessment
• Discouraging the use of mechanical harvesting
machines in all areas where soil erosion is likely to
be severe.
• Harvesting efficiency, the choice of harvesting
standards and the application of Good
Manufacturing Practices in primary tea processing
Improveme
nt Areas
• Plant breeding: in order to develop highly efficient,
high value planting material for the future which in
turn will help distribution of quality produce.
• All tea products must be within legal or trade
standard limits for microbial contamination
• Free from heavy metals, significant foreign bodies
and any substances potentially harmful to
consumers.
• Clearly establishing the economics of cultivation of
marginal areas (steep slopes, shallow soils, high pH
areas, poorly drained land) and convert those which
are not profitable to wildlife reserves.
• Use manual weed control within the crop rather
than polluting machines.
10. SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION PRACTICES
FOLLOWED IN TEA INDUSTRY
• According to McKinsey estimates changes in transportation modes alone
can reduce supply chain energy use by 4% by 2020.
• Logistics is one of the vital areas of opportunity for improving sustainability
performance and reducing costs.
• Incorporating such a sustainable transportation network requires that a
company focus on the architecture of the network, including:
Tracking and minimizing distances travelled
Adopting low-carbon transportation modes and fuel sources
Setting long-term, quantitative reduction targets.
11. WASTE MANAGEMENT
Celcius coffee: New Zealand's first certified carbon neutral coffee company,
meaning that their coffee is delivered emissions free.
They have developed the "IdealCup; a lifetime reusable takeaway coffee cup.
It can be used instead of the disposable plastic cups, which cannot be resused, but
end up in the landfill after use.
They operate a Sustainable Packaging Policy, which aims to use the least
environmentally damaging packaging as compared to others in the same business.
They follow the three R’s – Reduce, Reuse and Recycling of waste when possible.
Their Waste Management Policy aims at reducing their waste to landfill to zero.
12. Sustainable Purchasing Policy;:To address the purchase of local
environmentally friendly products.
Waste to Energy: Agricultural wastewater can be converted to renewable
natural gas or biogas.
Pilot projects have been undertaken to apply this process to coffee wastewater
have taken place in about 6 countries till date.
Caffeinated Cars: A new technique has been developed by Bio-beanhas, to
process the waste that is generated after the coffee has been brewed.
Waste coffee grounds can be processed into advanced biofuel and biochemicals.
At their current capacity, they can process 50,000 tonnes a year.
The carbon-neutral clean fuel is sold to local businesses and aims to help
power the same coffee shops that provided the waste to be recycled
13. LAND USE
Organic farming using "SweetGrounds“; a soil conditioner product that incorporates waste
coffee grounds and naturally occurring minerals.
It increases the pH of the soil when added, and adds organic matter. This improves the soil
structure and enhances its water holding capacity.
It also gives a boost to the composting process by accelerating it. It has been developed by Ideal
Cup.
Multinational project involving a Chinese scientist and partners from Colombia and the
Republics of Namibia, Serbia and Zimbabwe: Coffee waste is an excellent substrate for growing
tropical mushrooms using pulp that would have otherwise polluted the environment.
14. SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING IN THE COFFEE INDUSTRY
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition has carefully crafted a
perfect packaging plan for sustainable packaging development. It
mainly involves three strategies. These are: Sourcing, Packaging
Optimization and Recovery
Recycling process consists of:
Design for
recyclability
Recycling
Access
Sorting and
Recovery
Re-usage
Compliance with
FTC guidelines
