Wyeth Nutrition is implementing a range of environmental sustainability practices—among these using packaging designed for recycling, renewable electricity, and electric transportation—as it plays a major role in providing quality nutrition with its products and customized services locally. Crucial to its mission of nurturing a healthier generation of Filipinos, the company is maximizing initiatives to contribute to a sustainable environment in which children can better thrive and grow up healthy.
These Wyeth initiatives adhere to a comprehensive roadmap to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. The roadmap prioritizes sourcing responsibly, transforming its operations, and shaping a waste-free future. In concrete terms, Wyeth is helping to tackle the country’s most urgent environmental problems.
Wyeth is addressing plastic pollution in the Philippines, which is among the worst in the world. One of its priority initiatives is the use of product packaging designed for recycling, with a single type of plastic or monomaterial that does not need to be taken apart to be recycled. All Wyeth packaging, including packs for Bonakid Pre-School, Promil, Promil Gold, and Ascenda, already consists of mono-material to make recycling more doable. While gaps remain in the soft plastics recycling value chain in the country, such packaging opens possibilities for the reuse of material designed for recycling and offers a supply of ready feed stock for recycling facilities in the future.
Wyeth products are made in factories that run on 100% renewable electricity, in a complete shift from power generated by fossil fuels. Further, the company has partnered with Mober, a frontrunner in green logistics services in the Philippines, to integrate electric vehicles into its mid- and last-mile delivery operations. Electric trucks or e-trucks will now be used to transport products from its factories and distribution centers to reach customers.
“For over 100 years, Wyeth has been nourishing healthier tomorrows for Filipino children. To fulfill this mission in the next 100 years, we must build and sustain a more livable planet for the well-being of generations to come,” said Arlene Tan-Bantoto, General Manager of Wyeth Philippines. “By making nutritious products with recycling-ready packaging, and manufacturing and distributing them with renewable electricity, we hope that mothers and families will have choices that enable them to contribute to environmental sustainability, as they raise healthier children.”