Tate & Lyle exceeds its 2020 environmental target goals
Tate & Lyle reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent and waste to landfill by 37 percent over the last twelve years, and is now working towards ambitious new 2030 targets
Tate & Lyle PLC (Tate & Lyle), a global food and beverage ingredient supplier, is pleased to announce that it has exceeded its 2020 environmental targets, set using a 2008 baseline. Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, generated by on-site energy use, were reduced by 25 percent (target of 19 percent), and waste to landfill was reduced by 37 percent (target of 30 percent). These environmental benefits are equivalent to the carbon captured by nearly 1 million acres of US forestry and 1,700 fewer garbage trucks taken to landfill.
The GHG emissions reduction target was delivered largely by investing in the transition to cleaner energy sources, such as replacing the coal boiler with a natural gas-fired combined heat and power system at the corn wet mill in Loudon, Tennessee (pictured). The waste target was met largely by eliminating certain waste streams from the production process by reclaiming organic solids which would otherwise have been sent to landfill.