Dollar General Partners with Arbor Day Foundation
May 06 2021 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
Company Donates $100,000 Toward Reforestation
and Tree Replanting; Efforts Highlight Company’s Mission of
Service
Dollar General (NYSE: DG) today announced a partnership with the
Arbor Day Foundation to extend the Company’s community and
environmental stewardship efforts. In addition to a $100,000
donation, which will support planting more than 20,000 trees
through reforestation and community tree planting events in
multiple states, Dollar General also plans to support the
partnership through employee volunteer days in various markets
across the country.
“We look forward to partnering in the Arbor Day Foundation’s
significant efforts to plant trees that will benefit communities
for generations to come,” shared Denine Torr, Dollar General’s vice
president of corporate social responsibility and philanthropy. “At
Dollar General, we are proud to be good community partners and
support positive changes in the communities where we serve, work
and live.”
The Company’s $100,000 donation will support Arbor Day
Foundation’s reforestation projects in Florida, Illinois, Michigan,
and Ohio with 5,000 trees allocated to each state. The trees
provided through Dollar General’s partnership seek to aid areas
that have experienced natural and man-made deforestation and to
provide vital habitat for endangered wildlife, healthier watersheds
and cleaner waterways, as well as increased carbon sequestration to
slow the rate of climate change and more sustainable
ecosystems.
Additionally, this fall Dollar General plans to lead community
tree planting projects in Nashville, Tennessee; Minneapolis,
Minnesota; Albuquerque, New Mexico and Durham, North Carolina to
provide local Dollar General employees with the opportunity to
create green spaces in their hometowns.
Dollar General’s commitment to its mission of Serving
Others also is reflected in its recycling efforts. Through the
Company’s cardboard backhauling initiative, which began in 2008, an
equivalent of nearly 35 million trees have been saved with more
than two million tons of recycled cardboard.
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About Dollar General
Corporation
Dollar General Corporation has been delivering value to shoppers
for more than 80 years. Dollar General helps shoppers Save time.
Save money. Everyday.® by offering products that are frequently
used and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids,
cleaning supplies, basic apparel, housewares and seasonal items at
everyday low prices in convenient neighborhood locations. Dollar
General operated 17,266 stores in 46 states as of February 26,
2021. In addition to high-quality private brands, Dollar General
sells products from America's most-trusted manufacturers such as
Clorox, Energizer, Procter & Gamble, Hanes, Coca-Cola, Mars,
Unilever, Nestle, Kimberly-Clark, Kellogg's, General Mills, and
PepsiCo. Learn more about Dollar General at
www.dollargeneral.com.
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