“Our goal is to be carbon neutral by 2030,” says Bart Hulsman, managing director of Boboli. “And we face two types of challenges in achieving this. Firstly, there are things we have no influence over, and secondly, there are challenges we do have influence over. We have chosen to tackle the second challenge.”
What does that mean in concrete terms? “For example, reducing CO2 emissions in our logistics. We can do something about that ourselves. But switching our ovens from gas to electric is not yet possible due to insufficient capacity. I am faced with grid congestion, and I can get very upset about that, but it doesn’t help.”
Waste stream
The Carbon Zero Club advises Boboli on reducing their carbon footprint. “In particular, we looked at the waste stream, reducing waste and loss within the production process. Together, we increased line occupancy, which means there are more rolls on the conveyor belt and you can bake more rolls in the same amount of time. That also saves quite a bit of energy.”
“We had wanted to tackle this for some time. The Carbon Zero Club asked us ten times at every step: why are you doing it that way? A Root Cause Analysis, where you tackle the problem at its core. That approach certainly helped us.”
What are the biggest challenges for the coming years, up to 2030? “Finding initiatives that we can implement ourselves. And trusting that issues we cannot solve ourselves, such as grid congestion, will be resolved.
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