AMCOR 

Behaviour change to achieve significant reduction in energy usage

Challenge
Achieve additional energy savings at the Amcor Smithfield site by shifting employee behaviour. 

Insight
Empowering employees to come up with their own environmental ideas to save energy on site, provides employees with a greater ‘will’ to drive the program. 

Solution
Project GreenLight – bright ideas for a green future, provided training and guidelines on what the employee could do. Included a video with employees talking about the environment, global warming and what it means for them, as well as reminder cards produced in Vietnamese, Mandarin, English and Samoan.

Result

Sustained employee behaviour change resulted in 30% reduction in base load energy consumption during operations and 70% reduction over the weekends.

At launch Amcor Smithfield had already saved the equivalent of two weeks worth of energy use simply via employee behaviour change.