Cintas Named a USA Today Climate Leader 2023
May 31 2023 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Cintas recognized for its ongoing efforts to
reduce its environmental impact
In recognition of its commitment to and success in reducing its
greenhouse gas emissions intensity in recent years, Cintas
Corporation (Nasdaq: CTAS) has been named to the inaugural USA
Today Climate Leader 2023 list.
To determine its first-ever Climate Leader list, USA Today
teamed with Statista, a leading global provider of market and
consumer data. They identified the U.S.-headquartered companies who
met the inclusion criteria that achieved the greatest reductions in
their core emissions intensities – the measurement of Scope 1 and 2
greenhouse gas emissions as a factor of revenue – between 2019 and
2021.
Cintas lowered the emissions intensity of its Scope 1 direct and
Scope 2 indirect emissions from 113.1 metric tons of carbon dioxide
equivalents per million dollars of revenue (MTCO2e/$M) in fiscal
year 2019, to 89.3 MTCO2e/$M in fiscal year 2021, which ended on
May 31, 2021.
In fiscal year 2022, Cintas lowered its emissions intensity by
an additional 7.5% – to 82.6 MTCO2e/$M – to bring its four-year
emissions intensity reduction to 27%. More information about
Cintas’ emissions performance and data methodologies is available
in its 2022 ESG Report.
“Rallying around our sustainability vision – A Shared Drive for
Better – has been important for us and our business,” said Todd
Schneider, Cintas President and CEO. “Our history of identifying
opportunities and solutions through our culture of positive
discontent has had a major impact on lowering our environmental
impact.
“We appreciate USA Today for recognizing Cintas as a Climate
Leader in its inaugural program. We believe innovation and advances
in technology will continue to be important drivers in our
sustainability initiatives, especially as we identify opportunities
to pursue sustainable programs and processes throughout our
business,” Schneider added.
Enterprise-wide initiatives like an LED lighting conversion
project and an ongoing dedication to Operational Excellence and
Reliability initiatives have all helped contribute to the decrease
in GHG emissions intensity.
Other more recent initiatives - including the rollout of its
first electric fleet vehicles and its SmartTruck fleet routing
optimization program – are expected to help contribute to ongoing
emissions intensity reductions.
In September 2021, Cintas announced its ambition to achieve Net
Zero GHG emissions by 2050 and has continued to build out its
enterprise-wide sustainability strategy.
“We never stop challenging the status quo in everything we do to
deliver A Shared Drive for Better,” said Christy Nageleisen, Cintas
Vice President of ESG. “As we continue on our ESG Journey, and
especially our Path to Net Zero, we will continue to embrace
opportunities that elevate sustainable solutions. We’ve made
significant progress during the last few years in identifying more
efficient ways to operate, and we’ll continue to evaluate every
input and output as we focus on reducing our environmental impact,
including our direct and indirect emissions.”
The company’s sustainable business model dates back to the Great
Depression when out-of-work circus performers Doc and Amelia Farmer
collected dirty, discarded shop rags and laundered them at home
before selling them back to the same Cincinnati-area companies and
creating a local circular economy for otherwise end-of-life
products.
As the family company continued to evolve, it continued to
operate a reduce, reuse, repair, recycle program – first with rags
and towels before expanding to other textiles and later rented
workwear under Cintas Founder and Doc and Amelia’s grandson, Dick
Farmer.
Learn More about Cintas’ ESG Journey
- Cintas 2022 ESG Report
- cintas.com/esg
- ESG is Central to Cintas
- The Spirit is the Difference
Cintas Corporation
Cintas Corporation helps more than one million businesses of all
types and sizes get Ready™ to open their doors with
confidence every day by providing products and services that help
keep their customers’ facilities and employees clean, safe, and
looking their best. With offerings including uniforms, mats, mops,
towels, restroom supplies, workplace water services, first aid and
safety products, eye-wash stations, safety training, fire
extinguishers, sprinkler systems and alarm service, Cintas helps
customers get Ready for the Workday®. Headquartered in
Cincinnati, Cintas is a publicly held Fortune 500 company traded
over the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol CTAS and is a
component of both the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and
Nasdaq-100 Index.
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Lizz Summers, Director of Corporate Affairs,
summerse2@cintas.com, (513) 972-2859
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