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Welcome
Sustainability
Category overview
Sustainability
Healthier People,
Healthier Planet
It’s fewer than 50 years since the word sustainability was 昀椀rst used
in the sense that most people use it today; in short, to “describe
human activity in which environmental degradation is minimised”.1
The soft drinks industry takes this seriously. We are all working
towards ambitious targets.
Sustainability shouldn’t only be seen in the
context of the planet and the creatures humanity
shares it with, however. It’s widely accepted that
sustainability should also be seen in relation to
the health of people. “Health and sustainability
are mutually enabling and constraining,” state
the authors of one in昀氀uential study.2 Healthy
people need a healthy planet, and vice versa. The
forementioned study recommends the integration
of health and sustainability initiatives.
That’s what we’ve done. At Britvic we use the
phrase Healthier People, Healthier Planet to
encapsulate our approach to sustainability.
We’re proud to be working with our peers across
the industry to aim to reduce our impact on the
environment and help improve people’s health.
But what does that mean in practice? And what
progress has been made over the past year?
1 OED - https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sustainable_adj
2 Health Promotion International, 8 January 2013 - https://academic.oup.com/heapro/article/29/3/558/754800
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