Sustainability
As a pioneer of the sharing economy, Brambles is one of the world’s most sustainable logistics businesses. We’re transforming how we get products to people by pioneering truly regenerative supply chains.
Our circular business model
Our circular business model facilitates the ‘share and reuse’ of the world’s largest pool of reusable pallets and containers. This enables Brambles to serve its customers while minimising the impact on the environment and improving the efficiency and safety of supply chains around the world. In a resource-constrained world, circular business models like those operated by Brambles are recognised as a practical business solution enabling the world to trade more responsibly. By replenishing what it extracts and providing its products via a service, Brambles helps reduce both the constant pressure on natural resources and the waste production typical of conventional linear business models.
Pioneering regenerative supply chains
Brambles is working to help create a nature-positive economy with re-use, resilience and regeneration at its core. It’s how we can create more natural and social value than we take while bringing emissions down to zero as soon as possible. We’re setting the ambition to pioneer truly regenerative supply chains. It means breaking the link between consumption and harm to the environment and society. And it means moving from degenerative systems that waste resources to regenerative models that restore nature and strengthen society; In other words, putting back in more than we take from the world. By reaching zero impact and beyond, we’ll be the company delivering the supply chains the world needs for the future.
Our 2030 Targets
Nature Positive
Forest positive
Regenerate two hectares for every one required for Brambles’ timber needs
Climate positive
Achieve Brambles’ science-based targets and respond to climate change impacts through adaptation and mitigation measures
Waste positive
Reach 80% net-positive solutions for Brambles’ product waste, and for virgin plastic substitution in Brambles’ products
Business Positive
Supply Chain Positive
Achieve year-on-year growth in circular benefits in Brambles’ customer supply chains
Positive collaboration
Activate sustainability collaborations with 1,000 partners across Brambles’ supply network
Workplace positive
Continue the pursuit of Zero Harm and achieve a year-on-year increase in Brambles’ Employee Experience-Index
Communities Positive
Positive Policy Impact
Promote regeneration, circularity and sustainability in policy development
Food Positive
Achieve year-on-year increases in food waste avoided and food surplus rescued
Community Resilience
Leverage Brambles’ resources for community resilience through crisis response programmes
ESG Recognitions
3rd ranking by TIME Magazine in its World’s Most Sustainable Companies list for 2025. This is Brambles’ second year of inclusion, which has seen us advance to 3rd (4th in 2024).
Brambles ranked 4th most sustainable company in the world in the 2025 Corporate Knights Global 100 list from over 8,000 analysed, scoring 100% on sustainable revenue and sustainable investment (2nd in 2024).
AAA maximum rating from MSCI has been maintained, demonstrating industry leadership in managing the most significant ESG risks and opportunities.
2nd in the Dow Jones Best‑in‑Class World Index (formerly the Dow Jones Sustainability Index) in our industry category in 2024 (1st in 2023). This marks Brambles’ 11th consecutive year on the list.
CDP A List for both Climate Change and Forests awarded to Brambles in 2024, the highest rating for transparency and action in these areas, and for the first time recognised as a Supplier Engagement Leader (A- for both Climate Change and Forests in 2023).
Global Top Employer recognition making us one of only 17 companies with this certification in 2025. Brambles is also recognised as a Top Employer in 26 countries and four regions.
Brambles is an inaugural recipient of the Terra Carta Seal, launched by the former Prince of Wales as part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative at COP26
Before its discontinuation in 2024, Brambles achieved an overall score of A in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circulytics programme
Our Sustainability Videos
Brambles 2030 Sustainability Programme
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Brambles 2030 Sustainability Programme
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Brambles' 2025 Sustainability Programme
Say hello to our 2025 Targets for a regenerative future. We’re evolving our successful ‘Better’ model into a ‘Positive’ model to pioneer regenerative supply chains, which means creating, restoring or replenishing into society and the environment what the business takes out. Are you ready to join us?
