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Sustainability
2025 Sustainability report
At Tosca, sustainability remains at the core of our DNA. We are committed to supporting the sustainability goals of our customers, reducing the impact of our operations, and fostering a more sustainable community both within and outside our organization.
2025 by the numbers
less water invovled with RPCs than single-use corrugated packaging
%
trees saved from avoiding cardboard use
M
Olympic pools of water saved
K
completed food safety tests globally in 2024
of our electricity (grid and direct) is provided by renewable energy
%
Sustainability overview
For more than 60 years, Tosca has been a leader in reusable, recyclable transport packaging and pooling services, working in partnership with the world’s leading brands to eliminate waste along the supply chain. Our sustainability value proposition: Circular Packaging Solutions for a Sustainable Supply Chain.
Transforming the transportation packaging sector
Transportation packaging is the unseen and unsung hero of the supply chain. Procuring, storing, repairing, packing, and moving packaging efficiently while navigating regulatory requirements such as the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) an EPR laws, and achieving sustainability expectations is not easy from several perspectives:
Cost
The hidden cost associated with excess labor and time required to handle single-use packaging, product loss due to damage and cost to replace along with regulatory compliance and associated fees (and potential fines), all strain resources.
Environmental
Manufacturing, storing, washing, and transporting single-use packaging increases emissions, water use, and waste along the supply chain.
Safety
Corrugated boxes and wooden pallets expose workers to ergonomic strain, cuts, and splinters and can pose risks in food production areas (splinters) or during transit (puncturing contents).
Integrated value proposition: The egg
Tosca contributes to our customer’s sustainability goals all along the value chain. Take the Journey of an egg.
Tosca’s reusable packaging solutions do more than safely move eggs — they protect profits, reduce environmental impacts and simplify operations at every point along the journey from farm to store — resulting in cost savings of around 24% and emissions savings of up to 80%, compared to traditional packaging.
Leaner operations, smarter outcomes
To effectively provide customers with transformative sustainability benefits through Tosca’s reusable packaging solutions, we’re committed to reducing our own environmental impact. By actively pursuing greater operational efficiency, often in collaboration with customers, Tosca works to conserve energy, decrease emissions, optimize water usage, and minimize waste throughout our extended supply chain.
Energy and water efficiency
Over 51% of our electricity (grid and direct) is provided by renewable energy, and 25% of facilities have solar panels on the building. We routinely explore how we can be better water stewards as described in our Water-Wise Food Safe section.
Waste reduction
Over 62% of our sites recycle operational waste, in addition 100% of redundant assets in our control are sent for recycling and incorporation back into new assets: On average we have approximately 25% recycled content across our asset portfolio.
Process improvements
90% of our facilities have some form of automation in place – unstacking, opening, closing, stacking, and wrapping. This improves safety, increases operational efficiency, and reduces asset damage.
Equipment and infrastructure upgrades
Across EMEA, we’ve replaced 100% of forklifts with electric options. Globally we continue to implement LED lighting in facilities and are over halfway to our goal of full LED lighting in our largest footprint areas.
Water-wise and food safe
Water is a precious resource. At Tosca, we’re on a mission to make every drop count in our wash cycles while ensuring that our reusable plastic packaging meets Quality and Food Safety (QFS) standards. This is particularly important to prevent the spread of foodborne illnesses. We are proud that our rigorous attention to detail when washing our reusable assets significantly supports our customers in their aim of preventing the transmission of food-related diseases.
Water use intensity
We are on a mission to make every drop count in our wash cycles. Our water use intensity has reduced almost 10% since 2022
Critical defense against food borne illnesses
Our wash facilities and our testing regimes are engineered to meet the strictest industry regulations including ISO 22000- certified food safety standards
Playing our role during outbreaks
During crises like the ongoing avian influenza outbreak, our advanced cleaning processes help prevent contamination along our piece of the supply chain, ensuring safe and reliable movement of food goods.
Regulatory compliance support
Our Tosca Asset IQTM capabilities can support our customers in their compliance with FSMA Section 204 and EU Traceability needs, ensuring full compliance with evolving food safety laws.
Heart of sustainability
Our people are at the heart of every innovation, improvement, and customer success we achieve. Their creativity and passion fuel the measurable impacts we deliver together. Simply put, they are the heart of Tosca.
Survey participation
95% Global participation in our Annual Engagement Survey
Code of conduct
100% Team members trained on the Tosca Code of Conduct
Pay equivalency
1:1 Pay parity male-to-female in equivalent roles (base salary and total compensation)
Employee tenure
29% of Team Members with > 5 years tenure (5% increase from 2023)
Women in leadership
12% of women in supervisor position (5% increase from 2023)
Circular supply chain
Our circular economy doesn’t end with our products — it’s embedded in how we work with suppliers across our entire value chain.
At Tosca, we see our suppliers as an extension of our own operations. Our supply chain is a dynamic network of critical third parties working in sync to help reduce waste, extend product life, and deliver impact. We apply the same high standards to every critical partner through our Supplier Code of Conduct.
Tosca’s critical supply chain partners include:
Raw material suppliers
Providing inputs to both Tosca-owned and third-party manufacturers
Third-party manufacturers
Producing a portion of our reusable packaging, supporting our focus on food safety, recycled content and innovation
Asset conditioning services
Sorting, repairing and washing our assets to keep them in circular use for as long as possible
Logistics providers
Planning efficient, sustainable transport and serving as our frontline representatives.
Plastics regrinders and recyclers
Maintaining closed-loop systems and quality control
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Sustainability is in our company's DNA
"The ability to record and understand data is one of the most important ways a business can understand actual performance and identify areas to improve. We see huge potential for our customers to optimize efficiency in their supply chains by combining our high-quality products with the intelligent insights provided by our IoT technologies.”
Nigel Lemmon
Chief Information Officer at Tosca
"Water is fundamental to our process. At Tosca, we
take our responsibility to manage this vital resource
seriously — supporting our sustainability goals while
helping customers achieve theirs.”
Shayne Murphy
U.S. VP of Operations
"Designing an RFID tracking system
is complex because signals can
interfere with each other and
reflect off metal surfaces. We
tested labels that stay firmly
attached and remain legible after
multiple high-temperature washes.
These labels feature a precisely
tuned antenna that uses the
asset’s plastic to boost the signal
while minimizing interference with
neighbouring tags.”
Kevin Boone
Traceability Service Manager EMEA
"Tosca aims to lead not just in product innovation, but in setting the standard for scalable, sustainable logistics solutions with outstanding customer service.”
Richard Evans
Director of Sales Downstream, Tosca, UK
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