Supporting sustainable forestry

As a major user of paperboard, we have a responsibility to ensure the world's forests are managed in a socially, environmentally and economically sound way. We ensure than 100% of the paperboard in our packages comes from FSC™ Forest Stewardship Council™ certified forests and other controlled sources and 100% of the packs that we produce globally are eligible to carry the FSC™ label on-pack​. We do this by joining up with suppliers, non-governmental organisations and other stakeholders to promote responsible forest management and strengthen traceability through certification and labelling.

We have also achieved full FSC™ Chain of Custody certification for all our operations, meaning that we can now supply FSC™-labelled packages from anywhere in the world.

The FSC license code for Tetra Pak is FSC™ C014047.​

Read more about the positive impact of FSC™ certification.​

In sourcing paperboard for liquid-based packaging, we follow two main principles:

- all the wood fibre in our paperboard should come from forests independently certified as being managed in accordance with the principles of sustainable forest management; and

- we should be able to prove traceability from the forests all the way to the packaging material we produce at our sites globally, which can only be ac​hieved through independent certification of the total Chain of Custody​.