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Sugarbird Sustainability Actions

Water-efficient practices adopted

Within its own operations, PepsiCo South Africa is pioneering water-efficient practices and adopting state-of-the-art technologies. These endeavours have led to significant reductions in water consumption across its manufacturing facilities and supply chain while upholding the highest standards of product quality and safety.

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Community water projects launched

We are collaborating with local partners and non-governmental organisations to launch community-driven projects that enhance water access, quality, and sustainability.

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Greater Cape Town Water Fund

PepsiCo supports landscape treatments through invasive species removal by partnering with The Nature Conservancy to support the Greater Cape Town Water Fund. Since 2018, through this partnership, we have replenished 1.77 billion litres of water, and contributed to creating 570 jobs, focusing on the removal of water-hungry alien invasive plants, primarily for women and young adults, including 94 specially trained high-angle technicians working in remote, mountainous terrain.

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Drakensberg water management

PepsiCo partnered with WWF to manage water resources in the Southern and Northern Drakensburg, and Kouga-Sondags-Langkloof areas. Activity under this partnership includes landscape management interventions such as an alien vegetation clearing project that has replenished 567 million litres of water across three projects areas in the Drakensberg, and has created economic opportunities and improved local livelihoods by providing an average 18 200 days of employment through the project in the Northern Drakensberg.

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Safe water and sanitation support

PepsiCo South Africa has invested significantly to support access to safe water, sanitation, and handwashing facilities for poor communities across provinces in South Africa through strategic partnerships with the National Business Initiative, the Water Research Institute, and Save Our Schools.

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School leak repairs and savings

The company also partnered with key stakeholders to repair leaks in schools, and reduce losses in bulk municipal systems across South Africa. The aim of this project is to achieve water savings equal to, or higher than, the annual water usage of the PepsiCo facilities within the respective municipalities. This project will help to offset the water use at its operations in Mangaung, Mogalakwena, Polokwane, Madibeng and Dawid Kruiper municipalities. The total savings achieved was over 50 million litres per month, which equates to about 65% of PepsiCo’s attributable operational water consumption in South Africa being replenished into these high-risk watersheds.

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AWS Standard adoption in 2023

The following sites will have fully adopted the Standard in 2023: Parow Plant, Epping Rice, Epping Bakery, Claremont Bakery, Worcester Fruit Tree, Worcester Bakery, Cereals Atlantis, Oats Epping, Sugarbird, Weet-Bix, Malmesbury Pasta, Malmesbury Mill, Ceres Fruit Juices and Upington Dried Fruit.

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