CNH – France, Italy, Spain and the UK
Pollution is ubiquitous on beaches across Europe, and in 2022, a median of 481 plastic items were found per 100 m on the continent’s beaches. Led by CNH’s CASE Construction Equipment brand and CNH’s Sustainable Development Initiatives division, the Beach Care Project aims to engage the public to clean up beaches around Europe. The programme combines technology, community engagement and education by working with leading scientific institutions to research beach ecosystems, analyse collected waste and promote educational and environmental awareness initiatives.
Although water waste cuts across industries, brewing beer is a notoriously water-intensive process: some breweries use seven litres of water for every litre of beer produced, and up to 70% of that water becomes wastewater. To reduce water use at the Carlsberg Group’s brewery in Fredericia, Denmark, DuPont worked with partners to implement a state-of-the-art Total Water Management treatment plant. These groundbreaking technologies enabled the facility to reduce water consumption by 58.8%, cutting the water needed to brew a litre of beer from 3.4 litres to 1.3 litres.
Of the estimated 186.5 kg of packaging waste that each EU inhabitant generated in 2022, 41.1% was paper and cardboard. To combat that level of waste, in 2021, MSD Animal Health became the first manufacturing pharmaceutical company in Germany to implement a reusable packaging system and ship medicines and vaccines in sustainable, reusable boxes. Eliminating disposable boxes reduces the company’s CO2 footprint by more than 50% and saves more than 80% of water used, without any additional costs for customers.
Read more about AmCham EU members’ sustainability initiatives on Invested in Europe, our platform for stories of American companies’ positive impacts on communities across the continent.
