Reusable packaging defined
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2025 Tosca Sustainability Report
Welcome to Tosca’s 2025 Sustainability report. The following collection illustrates our ongoing progress on our sustainability journey during 2024 and early 2025. We enjoy working with our customers, suppliers and Tosca team members to advance an ever more responsible innovative business through partnership and be all together better. Sustainability news & stories
2024 by the numbers
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. In 2024, our sustainability strategy generated impressive results across all of these areas, such as:
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
straight of zero non-compliance findings in our ISO 22000-certified locations (all U.S.) locations
yrs
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).
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.
Sustainability news & stories
06/17/2025
06/03/2025
What packaging is costing growers — and why more are switching to reusables
Produce growers have a long list of challenges they’re trying to solve. Labor is harder to secure and retain. Input...
04/29/2025
Corrugated boxes vs. RPCs: What’s the best choice for food safety?
Packaging might not seem like a boardroom decision. But when it can make or break your food safety strategy, it...
04/17/2025
How to reduce risks and boost food safety in the meat industry
Meat processors struggle to fill open positions and keep well-trained employees on staff. The numbers bear this out. Consider the...
04/03/2025
Water-wise and food safe
As part of Tosca's commitment to sustainability, this post is a part of an ongoing series that highlights our 2025...
04/02/2025
5 Strategies for Supply Chain Resiliency in 2025
One hundred thousand eggs—gone overnight. In early February, thieves stole $40,000 worth of organic eggs from a Pennsylvania trailer, leaving...
Sustainability is in our company's DNA
"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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