ConAgra Foods to Green Supply Chain and Significantly Reduce Packaging, Water Use, GHG Emissions and Waste
On Monday, ConAgra Foods, Inc., one of North America’s leading food makers, announced five aggressive sustainability goals to be achieved by 2015. Although ConAgra Foods has been involved with various sustainability initiatives since 1992, this is the first time it has set company-wide sustainability goals.
“Because our food is part of the lives of millions of consumers each day, ConAgra Foods has a critical responsibility to create positive environmental change. We can do that by making our food–such as Healthy Choice meals, Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn and Hunt’s tomatoes–in the most sustainable and efficient way possible,” says Gary Rodkin, ConAgra Foods CEO. “We’ve set these new transparent sustainability goals to ensure we are a leader in continuously improving the way we make food, and to continue to create more awareness for what others can do to improve as well.”
By 2015, ConAgra Foods plans to: (more…)
