ConAgra Foods to Significantly Reduce Packaging, Water, Greenhouse Gas and Solid Waste by 2015
April 05 2010 - 10:20AM
Business Wire
ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America’s leading
food makers, today announced five aggressive sustainability goals
to be achieved by 2015. The goals build on the company’s
sustainability accomplishments, which began in a company-wide
fashion in 1992 with the ConAgra Foods Sustainable Development
Awards program. This is the first time ConAgra Foods has set
company-wide sustainability goals.
ConAgra Foods’ Sustainability Goals for 2015 include:
- Greenhouse gas emissions: Reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent per pound of product
produced as compared to 2008 emissions.
- Water: Reduce water use by 15
percent per pound of product produced as compared to 2008 water
use.
- Solid waste: Divert solid waste
from landfills by at least 75 percent as compared to 2011
levels.
- Packaging: As compared to 2008,
the company will: (a) reduce packaging by 10 percent per pound of
product produced, (b) increase the amount of packaging made of
renewable resources from 45 percent to more than 50 percent, and
(c) increase the use of recycled content in packaging overall by 25
percent.
- Supply chain engagement:
Encourage continuous improvement of the supply chain in the areas
of energy, water, materials and waste. Work with growers to further
enhance sustainable farming practices that optimize yield while
improving land stewardship.
“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,” said 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.”
Recent sustainability accomplishments
Since 2007, ConAgra Foods has measured distinct sustainability
projects that have reduced carbon emissions by more than 25,000
metric tonnes, eliminated 4,000 tons of landfill waste and 7,000
tons of packaging materials, and conserved 348 million gallons of
water.
The company has been recognized for several recent achievements
and is making significant capital investments to drive further
processing efficiency.
- Named to CRO Magazine’s annual
100 Best Corporate Citizens list, one of the world's top corporate
responsibility rankings.
- First company in North America
to use post-consumer recycled plastic in its frozen meal trays,
diverting 8 million pounds of plastic from landfills annually.
- Winner of the World Packaging
Organization’s prestigious WorldStar Award for Hunt’s Ketchup,
designed to be compatible with bottle-to-bottle recycling.
- Opening in November 2010,
ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston’s environmentally friendly sweet potato
processing plant in Delhi, La., will be one of the first food
plants in the country using the newest and best processing and
packaging technologies in the industry and following LEED standards
for environmentally sustainable construction. Also within the
company’s frozen potato platform, the Quincy, Wash., plant recently
became one of only three potato plants in the nation to earn the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR®.
In regard to ConAgra Foods’ new sustainability goals, results
will be made publicly available in August of each year through the
ConAgra Foods Corporate Responsibility Report published at
www.conagrafoods.com/corporateresponsibility.
ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) is one of North America’s
leading food companies, with brands in 96 percent of America’s
households. Consumers find Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters,
Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt’s, Marie Callender’s, Orville
Redenbacher’s, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip and many ConAgra Foods
brands in grocery, convenience, mass merchandise and club stores.
ConAgra Foods also has a strong business-to-business presence,
supplying frozen potato and sweet potato products as well as other
vegetable, spice and grain products to a variety of well-known
restaurants, foodservice operators and commercial customers. For
more information, please visit us at www.conagrafoods.com.
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