The Greenery provides insight into its sustainability progress.

The Greenery today publishes its 2025 Sustainability Report. The report outlines the steps the cooperative is taking together with growers, employees, customers and supply chain partners towards a future-proof fruit and vegetable supply chain.

With this report, The Greenery is making a deliberate commitment to greater transparency about its sustainability impact, results and ambitions. The report has been prepared in accordance with the European VSME sustainability reporting standard, which helps organisations report on sustainability in a structured way.

The report brings together The Greenery’s main achievements, targets and challenges across its four sustainability pillars: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, future-proof growing, reusing resources and caring for people.

Concrete steps in 2025

The Sustainability Report shows the steps The Greenery took in 2025 to put its sustainability ambitions into practice across the four pillars of its sustainability policy:

• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
• Future-proof growing
• Reusing resources
• Caring for people

Results highlighted in the report include:

• 100% green electricity at all The Greenery’s own sites;
• A 75% reduction in gas consumption compared with 2021;
• The launch of the Groene Groeimakers programme, showcasing sustainability initiatives by growers and employees;
• Further development of the 100% Groen Geteeld pilot, focused on commercially viable growing without chemical crop protection products;
• Further improvements in packaging sustainability, including fully recyclable strawberry packaging.

These results show that, for The Greenery, sustainability is not a separate topic but part of everyday decisions throughout the supply chain: from growing and logistics to packaging, collaboration and employment practices.

Transparency as a foundation for collaboration

As a cooperative of Dutch fruit and vegetable growers, The Greenery is working towards a supply chain that keeps healthy produce available to consumers while considering the interests of growers, customers, employees, nature and society. This requires clear choices as well as collaboration across the entire supply chain.

“Progress does not come from waiting, but from consistently taking measurable steps together,” says Markowski. “With this report, we show what has already been achieved and where further action is needed. That openness is precisely what helps us keep building together.”

Building the future together

For The Greenery, the Sustainability Report is an opportunity to look back, but above all a foundation for further progress. In the years ahead, The Greenery will continue working with growers, customers, employees and supply chain partners towards a future-proof supply chain that keeps fruit and vegetables sustainably accessible.