It is expressed in everything we do : from reducing waste and energy use in our operations and limiting the impact of our products to respectfully collaborating with our co-workers, suppliers and clients.
Tamarind Foods wants to take its responsibility in tackling climate action. We have been calculating our direct operational emissions (scope 1 and 2 emissions) from 2019 onwards and we started to measure our emissions upstream and downstream in our value chain (scope 3 emissions) in 2024.
In 2025 we set a science-based target committing to reduce our absolute scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions 60% by 2034 from a 2023 base year, and to measure and reduce our scope 3 emissions. This target has been validated by the Science Based Target Initiative.
We already set significant steps to reduce our carbon emissions by improving the energy efficiency of our operations, switching to renewable energy contracts, reducing our packaging volumes, prioritizing recycled and recyclable packaging, optimizing our waste sorting and recycling and purchasing less carbon-intensive ingredients.
We are conscious about the impact of our packaging policy on our environmental and carbon footprint.
With the replacement of plastic lids by films for our salad and pasta bowls in 2025, we reduced the weight of plastic packaging for our salad and pasta bowls with respectively 34% and 25%. This resulted in a decrease of the packaging related carbon emissions with 30% per salad bowl and 19% per pasta bowl.
In 2026, we plan to move from virgin to recycled plastic packaging for our mezze plates. This will help to reduce the weight of plastic packaging per plate with 29% and the carbon emissions with 40%.
We believe that long-term success is only possible when people feel respected, motivated and supported.
Our goal is to provide a safe, inclusive and empowering environment where every employee can thrive and contribute their best work.
In our organisation where more than 15 nationalities work together every day, we promote a culture of openness, respect, collaboration and trust.
These values are expressed in our Code of Conduct which is part of our onboarding and evaluation processes.