Intersnack France

Innovating for

the planet

Tackling environmental challenges to help protect our planet

Hands holding freshly harvested potatoes

Many of these challenges are interlinked. Food waste, for example, accounts for 8% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. This is of particular relevance to our sector. Approximately one-third of the world’s produced food ends up as waste. In a world in which many people are hungry and malnourished, this is both an environmental and a human tragedy.

Our main activities

Intersnack strives to develop high-quality products each day whilst simultaneously curbing its environmental impact. All of our factories have been awarded ISO 50 001 certification, a standard that endorses their efforts to improve their energy performance. 

Key progress to date:

25%

CO2

reduction

0%

food

waste

55%

LED lights

at the Vic-Sur-Aisne site

Reducing our carbon footprint

Numerous initiatives have been rolled out to reduce the firm’s CO2 emissions. Over the past 10 years, we have successfully reduced our emissions by 25% (per tonne of saleable product) thanks to initiatives such as:
- Installing LED lighting in plants (installed in 55% of plants to date).
- Reusing the energy we produce when cooking crisps.
- Recovering 100% of food waste by using it to produce energy or animal feed, with full supply chain traceability.

Illustration CO2 Cloud

Helping to maintain

carbon sinks

For the 2nd consecutive year, we are financing a reforestation project in the Saint Gobain forest, near our factory – a low-carbon project set up by the ONF, the France’s National Forests Office (Office National des Forêts).

Reducing food waste to zero

We are proud that we have been able to reduce food waste in our own factories to 0%. In 2020, all our edible residual materials were recovered, mostly for recycling as animal feed - or for composting.

Illustration of a famer with a box of potatoes in his hand

Packaging

Intersnack is also committed to reducing the amount of packaging material it uses and sourcing alternative, more sustainable packaging materials.
Today, 100% of our cardboard packaging is FSC* certified
*FSC: Forest Stewardship Council - an environmental label certifying that timber or wood-based products are sourced from responsibly managed forests.