Tosca, a global provider of reusable and recyclable plastic packaging and pooling services, has published its 2025 sustainability report under the title Driving Change Together. The document presents progress towards the company’s 2030 environmental targets and confirms its focus on measurable actions and cooperation with partners across the supply chain. The report covers results for 2024, indicating improvements in environmental and operational performance, as well as tangible benefits for customers resulting from the application of reusable packaging systems.
In 2024, Tosca achieved a number of indicators that the company describes as key to delivering its sustainability strategy. These include both the reduction of resource use and the decrease of greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain, with a particular focus on indirect emissions. According to the report, the company continued to invest in digital solutions for asset tracking and packaging management, and in the development of infrastructure supporting the circular economy. It is emphasised that these activities are intended to help customers adapt to increasingly strict regulatory requirements, including EU packaging and packaging waste rules and extended producer responsibility schemes in Europe and the United States.
Key environmental and operational results for 2024
The report presents a set of metrics that Tosca describes as most important for assessing the effects of reusable packaging in supply chains. Based on comparison with 2022, the company reports a 10% reduction in water-use intensity. In 2024, the elimination of single-use cardboard packaging was reported to have removed more than 268,000 tonnes of that material from supply chains.
According to the data presented in the report, 51% of the electricity consumed came from renewable sources. In the area of greenhouse gas emissions, Tosca reports a 47% reduction in Scope 3 emissions compared with 2023, which, as underlined in the report, means exceeding the target set for 2030. In addition, the company’s calculations indicate that the use of reusable systems enabled customers to avoid more than 339,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Further indicators relate to efficient water use and digital solutions. Tosca states that the use of reusable packaging saved 57 million cubic metres of water. In the area of packaging infrastructure digitalisation, the company notes that 100% of new products introduced to the market in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union are equipped with RFID tags, intended to support better traceability and management of asset flows.
Eric Frank, Tosca’s CEO, highlights in the report the importance of cooperation with customers and basing actions on data. "Our 2025 sustainability report shows what is possible when we drive change together. In 2024, we partnered closely with our customers to eliminate single-use packaging, cut emissions and improve efficiency, all backed by verified data. We have already exceeded our 2030 Scope 3 goal, advanced circularity across our network, and helped customers achieve measurable environmental and operational gains. This proves that sustainability isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s a smarter, more resilient way to run a supply chain."
Cooperation and transparency as the basis for action
The guiding theme of the report, Driving Change Together, reflects the company’s stated belief that achieving significant environmental outcomes requires cooperation across the entire value chain. Tosca points to a number of initiatives from 2024 that were reportedly implemented in collaboration with partners and customers. These include activities aimed at reducing food waste, logistics-related emissions and the environmental impact of packaging.
A key area is the development of digital tools for packaging asset management. The report highlights the further expansion of the use of the Tosca Asset IQ solution, intended to improve supply chain traceability and minimise asset losses. This system is designed to support optimisation of packaging flows and to increase operational efficiency in logistics.
The company also emphasises the role of its reusable systems in helping customers comply with regulatory requirements, in particular the EU packaging and packaging waste regulation and evolving extended producer responsibility schemes in Europe and the United States. The report also refers to strengthening activities in the area of closed-loop operations and product design for circularity, which is intended to include maintaining packaging in use for as long as possible and recycling it at end of life.
Development outlook and further investment directions
Tosca states that, entering 2026 and the following years, it will continue to develop infrastructure that supports the circular economy in retail, food production and logistics. According to the report, the company plans to further invest in circular packaging assets, reusable system infrastructure, digital solutions and process automation, all intended to support customers in increasing the share of reusable and recyclable packaging.
In the report, Eric Frank summarises the importance of partnership in achieving environmental goals. "With this sustainability report, we prove that sustainability driven by partnership isn’t just possible, it is value driven, it is practical and it is the path forward to a company having truly circular packaging, reusable and recyclable."
The full Tosca 2025 sustainability report, titled Driving Change Together, is available for download in electronic form.
