Many companies are shifting the ways they do business towards being more sustainable. By being sustainable they are achieving to reduce waste by adopting a more Kaizen attitude: waste-less, looking for maximum efficiency.
In today’s post, I am going to share with my readers how one of the worlds leading companies is aiming to be more sustainable. PepsiCo owns a great number of leading brands, being Pepsi and Lays one of the most well-known.
PepsiCo highlights that their growth and success depends on the availability of natural resources to make their products. Having said that, the company is working to reduce its impact on the planet by:
- Reducing, reusing, and reinventing our plastic packaging
- Protecting and conserving global water supplies, especially in water-stressed areas, and helping to provide access to safe water in the communities where we live and work
- Working to achieve an absolute reduction in GHG emissions across our global business
- Supporting sustainable agriculture by identifying and sharing best practices with our growers and suppliers while protecting human rights
- Working to reduce the solid waste our production facilities sent to landfills.
The company has been working on these aspects during the last 10 years, a crucial time for sustainability awareness and has achieved positive results in water use reduction. They have additionally helped around 16 million people to have access to fresh water since 2006.
Waste reduction is crucial when referring to packaging. For 2025 PepsiCo is aiming that 25% of their packaging will be made of recycled material. In my opinion, they could be aiming for a larger number. However the size of the company conditions heavily this change, and it is better than nothing.
Recently PepsiCo partnered up with the NFL, US Bank Stadium, Aramark, SMG and Minnesota Sports Facilities authorities to recycle, compost and recover 91% of stadium waste from the 2018 Super Bowl.
As for the future, PepsiCo created an agenda where objectives are set. They name the waybill under Agenda 2025. The agenda was created 4 years ago and aims for a corporate change during the 10 next years. For more information, you can check the Agenda 2025 in the following link.
Bernat!
Hi Bernat! It is great to heard that kind of initiatives from leading companies such as PepsiCo, because they are the ones that can impact the consumers in a more effective way. It is good to see that they care for the planet and working on developing a variety of initiative to achieve a more sustainable world. However, I am hesitant about the aim that they’ve fixed. We are kind of close to 2025 and I am not sure if they will be able to achieve the 25% objective that you are talking about in the article. We should stay tuned in PepsiCo’s next steps to evaluate if they will accomplish their goals. Hope that they will!