754On the 54th World Earth Day, Mengniu Group announced that the new plastic-reduced packaging for Youyi C 0 Sugar Active Probiotic Milk Drink (100g/bottle) has obtained a 46.62% carbon reduction certification. Carbonstop, as a leading provider of carbon management consulting solutions, provided professional support.
The development and upgrading of industries are often driven by leaders. After the country proposed the dual-carbon strategic goals, Mengniu launched the "GREEN Strategy," committing to achieving full industrial chain carbon neutrality by 2050 and actively taking a series of actions to fulfill its carbon reduction commitment, influencing and driving the low-carbon development of the entire industrial chain.
The Youyi C Eco Bottle is the first label-free product introduced by Mengniu. It eliminates the PET.G plastic label and optimizes the packaging structure, changing the material from PS to more easily recyclable PP, serving as a pioneering demonstration of carbon-reducing eco-packaging.
After professional calculations by Carbonstop, the carbon footprint of the newly designed product packaging has been reduced by 46.62% compared to before, equivalent to planting 75,138.2 trees, making a tangible contribution to protecting the Earth's ecological environment.
Without quantification, there is no management, and product carbon footprint accounting is the first step in carbon management. Mengniu has been paying attention to product carbon footprints for a long time, not only completing the carbon footprint accounting of its products but also formulating future carbon reduction paths.
In 2022, Carbonstop calculated the carbon footprint of the original flavor Youyi C 0 Sugar Active Probiotic Milk Drink (330g/bottle) and issued a product carbon footprint certificate. According to the calculations, each bottle of Youyi C 0 Sugar emits 301.81 grams of CO2 equivalent, covering the stages of raw materials, production, sales, use, and disposal.
Besides low-carbon packaging and products, Mengniu has also made significant efforts in low-carbon farms and low-carbon transportation. Mengniu has conducted carbon management planning for its farms, designing carbon reduction paths, including adjusting feed composition, managing and optimizing herd structure, optimizing manure management, and improving farm energy efficiency.
Additionally, Mengniu has procured green logistics service providers, increasing the use of new energy vehicles in regions with suitable natural conditions and appropriate transportation distances, and raising the proportion of rail and water transport in comprehensive transportation to continuously reduce transportation energy consumption and carbon emission intensity.
Addressing climate change and undergoing green and low-carbon transformation is a future business trend for many enterprises. Over the past decade, Carbonstop has provided carbon management consulting services to over 1,200 clients, including the formulation of dual-carbon strategies, setting carbon neutrality goals and paths, organizational carbon inventory and neutrality, and product carbon footprint evaluation and neutrality.
In addition to providing carbon management consulting services for the Youyi C Eco Bottle, Carbonstop has previously supported Morning Light in creating China's first carbon-neutral ballpoint pen, collaborated with Anchor to launch China's first "zero-carbon cake," and assisted Zhonggu in launching over 30 carbon-neutral products.
According to statistics, Carbonstop has cumulatively reduced about 100 million tons of carbon emissions for its cooperative clients and indirectly influenced the low-carbon behavior of approximately 800 million people through the products of its cooperative clients.
In the future, Carbonstop will continue to live up to its name of "stopping carbon footprints" by providing carbon emission management solutions to various industries through its professional carbon management team, global authoritative carbon emission factor database, and carbon management SaaS platform [Carbon Cloud Ccloud], reducing carbon footprints and supporting the realization of the national dual-carbon goals.
