Last week, Kohl’s Department Stores released its first annual corporate sustainability report.
The report, available at www.kohlsgreenscene.com, includes updates on the company’s primary environmental strategies: (more…)
PepsiCo now offers five options of eco-friendly, recyclable and compostable cups to its Foodservice customers in the US.
These new cup options include:
According to PepsiCo, the fountain cup portfolio mix empowers Foodservice customers –such as restaurants, stadiums and theme parks, and colleges and universities –to select the right green cup options based on locally available recycling and composting disposal facilities.
PepsiCo also sees the eco-friendly cups as a way to connect with consumers –particularly college and university students –who are increasingly interested in sustainable packaging options.
“The new cups are an advancement in technology, but also in the way we communicate,” said Margery Schelling, CMO PepsiCo Foodservice. “Customers increasingly are asking for environmental products that match changing needs, expectations and lifestyles. We want consumers to enjoy their favorite fountain beverages and feel good about the environmental impact of their purchases.”
In a press release, PepsiCo points out that the roll out of eco-friendly cups is aligned with the company’s global environmental goals and commitments, which include initiatives to reduce packaging waste, use rPET and renewable sources in packaging and increase the national beverage container recycling rate. Specific examples of PepsiCo innovations with respect to beverage packaging include: (more…)
After forging new partnerships with recyclers and mastering what the company calls “diligent efforts” at each of its facilities, Kellogg Company has already exceeded its aggressive 2015 goal for reducing waste sent to landfill.
More specifically, Kellogg reported a few weeks ago that nearly half of its facilities worldwide send 5 percent or less of the waste they generate to landfill, and that overall, the company has reduced its waste sent to landfill by 51 percent since 2005.
The highlights of Kellogg’s impressive waste reduction efforts are included in the company’s third global Corporate Responsibility Report, released last month on Earth Day. The report also includes updates on other key corporate responsibility initiatives in the environment, marketplace, workplace and community.
With regard to environmental stewardship, Kellogg has: (more…)
Last month, Mattel, Inc. announced that it has made considerable progress in several areas of its global sustainability program.
The strategy –called “Design It, Make It, Live It”–focuses on helping the company minimize its footprint throughout the value chain and across the organization and emphasizes the importance of personal commitment in business as well as everyday practices and processes. Here’s how Mattel explains the three different stages:
With regard to environmental initiatives, Mattel reported that it has made progress with: (more…)
Take one look around any doctor’s office or a hospital room, and it’s obvious: Modern healthcare depends on plastic products and materials.
Clearly, increasing the overall recycling of this plastic could have enormous positive impacts on both the environment and healthcare costs, so I was happy to hear that eight leading brands from the healthcare, recycling and waste management sectors are now joining forces to “inspire and enable” sustainable, cost effective recycling solutions for plastic products and materials used in the delivery of healthcare.
The new Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) consists of members from:
The goal of the collaboration is to identify plastics recycling barriers and solution development along the entire value chain, seeking to affect plastics recycling from healthcare product design and manufacturing through product use, disposal and recycle.
HPRC says initially it will focus on three initiatives: (more…)
