RPC specialist has unveiled its 2030 ESG Goals following a record year of environmental savings
Reusable packaging solution (RPC) specialist Ifco has announced its 2030 ESG Goals, building on ”a record year of environmental savings achieved together with customers in 2025”.
Ifco said that the savings demonstrate that each year, its circular business model delivers ”increasing, measurable environmental benefits – reinforcing that the company’s ambitious 2030 goals are grounded in proven progress”.
In 2025 alone, by replacing single-use packaging with reusable solutions, the group’s customers avoided and reduced over 803mn kg of CO2e, alongside substantial savings in water, energy, material use, and food waste, it pointed out.
These results highlight a ”clear trajectory of growing impact” and form the foundation for Ifco’s newly announced 2030 ESG Strategy, ’Thriving with Purpose’, which aims to help customers save and avoid one megaton of carbon emissions per year by 2030.
“At Ifco, sustainability progress is something we measure, verify, and deliver year after year together with our customers,” said Mike Pooley, CEO of Ifco.
“Our record 2025 results show that circularity at scale works.
”The 2030 ESG Goals build on this momentum, setting ambitious but achievable targets that are fully embedded in how we operate and grow our business globally,” he outlined.
Ifco’s 2025 Sustainability Certificates provide customers with verified data on the environmental savings achieved by replacing single-use packaging with the company’s SmartCycle pooling system.
Using life cycle assessments aligned with ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 and reviewed by independent third parties, the certificates quantify verified savings compared with conventional single-use corrugated packaging.
Global 2025 savings included 803,500 tonnes of CO2e, equivalent to driving around the planet 157,700 times by car; 56.7mn m³ of water, equivalent to 22,700 Olympic-size swimming pools; 16.6mn GJ of energy, equivalent to the annual energy consumption of 798,500 households; 1.44mn tonnes of solid waste, equivalent to the yearly solid waste of 2.9mn people; and 74,450 tonnes of produce waste, equivalent to 118.9mn meals saved.
2030 ESG Goals
The group’s 2030 ESG goals outline a measurable roadmap to scale the impact of its circular business model, structured around three pillars: business, planet, and society.
Key goals include helping customers avoid one megaton of carbon emissions per year by 2030, supported by transparent methodologies that quantify customer-level climate benefits, and delivering near-term Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) targets by 2031 and working toward a validated net-zero SBTi target by 2030.
Ifco is also aiming to achieve 100 per cent renewable electricity across key service centre partners and key reusable packaging manufacturers by 2030, and maintain zero waste to landfill every year, with all Ifco products upcycled into new reusable products at end of life, alongside innovation to reduce reliance on virgin plastics.
Delivery of the 2030 ESG Strategy will be underpinned by “rigorous governance”, it said, with ESG performance managed alongside financial performance.
“Our Ifco Thriving with Purpose strategy reflects a broader vision of sustainability,” said Iñigo Canalejo, vice president ESG and strategic marketing at Ifco.
”While circularity remains central, our new focus highlights creating shared value for people, communities, and the planet – embedding purpose into everything we do.”
