“VPK is a family company, so we don’t have to report to shareholders what we do. We do sustainability out of passion. The owners are wealthy enough to do things out of passion. What we want to do is to help the environment, to give the culture through our children and to the community. When we talk about the mission on the group, we push sustainable growth beyond tomorrow’s standards, we think global, and we act local being close to you and your products.
We are investing around 35 million Euro next year only in sustainability. We were doing sustainability already before we knew the fancy word,” Bart Dobbelaere, Managing Director, VPK Packaging & Corex Romania said during Sustainability in Business Forum organized by The Diplomat-Bucharest and Sustainability-Today.
“Our sustainability responsible is from the beginning with the company and she is still with us. We have the right sustainable approach when it’s about HR. I believe that in the future when customers will have to choose between two products, they will see the carbon footprint of each product.
When it comes to customers, education is important. Romania needs to invest more in education.
As a group, we made a commitment to reduce carbon emissions (Scope 1 and Scope 2) with 48 percent in 2030 compared to 2020. On Scope 3 we are finalizing the mapping this year and we also want to commit to a target.”
Full recording of the conference HERE
