FAQs
Questions and answers

As part of our transformative partnership with WWF Germany, we drafted the Jokey Sustainability Course 2030 in April 2022 and communicated it to all Jokey Group employees. All key processes and strategies are aligned with the course.

Jokey has set ambitious short-, medium- and long-term targets in its 2030 sustainability strategy, focusing on climate, circular economy and product design.

Jokey prepared its first sustainability report for the Wipperfürth and Gummersbach plants in 2017, presenting the Jokey Eco Concept 1.0. In 2023, a sustainability report was prepared for the years 2020 and 2021 for the entire group in accordance with the GRI Framework 2021.

Sustainability management was established and staffed in 2021

By the end of 2024, all Jokey Group plants will be certified according to DIN ISO 14001.

Jokey has drawn up an environmental policy as part of its 2030 sustainability programme and implemented it throughout the group.

The implementation process according to ISO 50001:2018 will be completed throughout the group by the end of 2024.

Jokey has drawn up a group-wide energy policy as part of its 2030 sustainability programme and implemented it throughout the group.

In 2020, we had a climate balance drawn up for the first time by an external service provider for the 2020/2021 reporting period. Climate balances have been drawn up for the following years 2022 and 2023. The 2024 balance will be drawn up by March 2025. We expect to report in the next sustainability report in May 2025. The carbon footprint will be calculated for all Jokey Group plants.

The CCF is calculated for Scopes 1, 2 and 3.

In 2022, we committed to the goals of the Science Based Targets Initiative and submitted our 2023 targets in all three scopes at 42% by 2030. Validation took place at the end of 2024.

We introduced our first Code of Conduct in 2012. We fundamentally revised it in 2023 and rolled it out to all Jokey Group employees at the beginning of 2024. We address the following topics in it:

• Human rights and working conditions
• Modern slavery
• Occupational health and safety
• Environmental responsibility
• Corruption prevention
• Money laundering and sanction lists
• Confidentiality and data protection
• Respectful behaviour
• Compliance with laws and regulations
• Responsible procurement
• Communication in the event of violations
• Whistleblowing

You can download our current Code of Conduct here.

In addition, we are currently introducing our new Supplier Ethical Code in our procurement department. This will soon be available on the procurement page.

Jokey has joined the Global Compact 2022. We have committed ourselves to 9 UN goals, which we are contributing to with a wide range of measures and activities.

The Jokey Group has already had several locations verified according to SMETA 4-Pillars, see chapter “Reliance on certifications and standards”.

The Jokey Group underwent a group-wide sustainability rating by the renowned EcoVadis rating platform for the first time in 2023. At the end of January 2024, it was awarded a bronze medal.

All Jokey packaging is highly recyclable and can also be manufactured with large proportions of post-consumer recyclates. See also the points Jokey Eco Design and Jokey Eco Resources in our Eco Concept 4.0.

The path to sustainable, recyclable packaging starts at the very beginning with the design. This is where the conditions for subsequent recycling and a functioning circular economy are created. The Jokey Eco Design ensures the technical quality of the recyclates, which are returned to the circular economy as secondary raw materials after the packaging has been used.

Jokey packaging is made from a single plastic material, polypropylene (PP). The hangers and labels used are also made from PP and, as a packaging unit, provide a homogeneous mass of material that does not need to be further separated and sorted, making it ideal for the subsequent recycling process. Recyclable material streams from household collection take this packaging, sort it and recycle it into so-called recyclates.

Packing as much product as possible with as little material as possible. This means weight reduction and no packaging where we don’t need it.
Thanks to its lower weight, Jokey packaging reduces the ecological footprint, as it uses less plastic during production. And in logistics and transportation, they improve the ratio of packaging weight to filling weight – thus reducing energy requirements and unnecessary CO₂ emissions.

In-mold labels (IML) consist of a polypropylene (PP) film (virgin material) and are thermally melted during the production process of the buckets or lids. In terms of materials, the bucket and label form a recyclable material unit. Pails and lids with IML can contain post-consumer recyclate and are highly recyclable.

Whether and to what extent a bucket with a metal handle is recyclable depends on the technology used in the processing plant. We generally recommend the use of plastic handles, as a bucket made of pure material is up to fully recyclable.

Recyclability must be assessed individually for each packaging, as several factors are included in the assessment: Coloring, decoration, hangers, additional labels or sealing foils (which the bottler or distributor attaches to the packaging), proportion of residual filling after use, etc. For this reason, it is unfortunately not possible for us to issue a general assessment or certificate for our packaging. For a certificate, each packaging must be assessed individually. In this case, we refer to accredited testing bodies, e.g. the cyclos-HTP Institute or RecyClass.