protecting the environment is everyone’s
responsibility however when a major
corporation such as frito-lay Nike Dell
or staples take steps to reduce its
carbon footprint the impact is not only
significant but measurable hi I’m
Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
exploring green practices being
implemented by several multinational
corporations across multiple industries
there are a variety of innovative
solutions being implemented by companies
big and small local and global in an
effort to reduce their carbon footprint
an obvious effort by car companies is
the popularization of hybrid and
electric vehicles which both reduce
emissions into our atmosphere energy
savings conserving energy is one
important step toward sustainability
staples Business Depot the retail office
supply chain was able to cut down on
energy consumption in their stores by
implementing a program called lights out
starting in 2007 during hot summer
months the lighting in their stores is
moderated and as a result the building
has kept cooler with less
air-conditioning their resulting energy
savings from only one year of the
program was enough to power 90 homes for
one year green packaging packaging is
one of today’s biggest concerns with
consumer products attempts to reduce or
eliminate packaging altogether are not
always cost-effective or practical the
PepsiCo subsidiary frito-lay has done
its part by introducing a 100%
compostable bag for its SunChips brand
after four years of development the bag
was introduced in 2010 the first
packaging of its kind in the snack food
world this bag is made primarily from
plant-based renewable materials derived
from starch this allows it to break down
an active compost in roughly 14 weeks
the bag was even certified by the
biodegradable products Institute which
is the only internationally recognized
labeling program highlighting the
importance of composting this initiative
was encouragement for the entire snack
food industry to develop and apply
ecologically friendly practices along
with their efforts and sustainable
packaging frito-lay has also reduced
waste water and energy consumption and
missions in their manufacturing and
distribution processes since 1999 the
company is managed to save 5.4 billion
litres of water they’ve also put into
place a program that sees their shipping
cartons reused five or six times before
being recycled with over 40 million
cartons being recycled to date the
bottled water industry is one that is
constantly working to improve their
effects on the environment with regards
to packaging biodegradable bottles made
from corn breakdown if they end up in a
landfill another packaging effort made
by PepsiCo is their eco FINA bottle for
their Aquafina water this bottle uses
half as much plastic as their previous
models launched in 2009 this switch
saves the company 75 million pounds of
plastic annually recycling programs
computer equipment is notoriously
difficult and expensive to dispose of in
2006 Dell was the first company in the
industry to offer a recycling program
for their old products the program has
expanded and used working computers can
be donated to nonprofit organizations
green products textile production is
also infamously rough on the environment
as a huge corporation Nike recognized
their impact on the planet because of
this they created a shoe made from
factory scraps brought to market in 2008
the sole of the trash talked shoe was
ground-up rubber from a shoe recycling
program they had previously implemented
reuse a shoe started in 1993 is a
program that recovers old shoes and
repurposes them into playgrounds
basketball courts running tracks and
other sports surfaces
from simply shutting off the lights to
creating a product that requires less
packaging to reducing carbon output the
efforts made by the world’s biggest
corporations can have an immense effect
on the future of the planet
responsibility however when a major
corporation such as frito-lay Nike Dell
or staples take steps to reduce its
carbon footprint the impact is not only
significant but measurable hi I’m
Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
exploring green practices being
implemented by several multinational
corporations across multiple industries
there are a variety of innovative
solutions being implemented by companies
big and small local and global in an
effort to reduce their carbon footprint
an obvious effort by car companies is
the popularization of hybrid and
electric vehicles which both reduce
emissions into our atmosphere energy
savings conserving energy is one
important step toward sustainability
staples Business Depot the retail office
supply chain was able to cut down on
energy consumption in their stores by
implementing a program called lights out
starting in 2007 during hot summer
months the lighting in their stores is
moderated and as a result the building
has kept cooler with less
air-conditioning their resulting energy
savings from only one year of the
program was enough to power 90 homes for
one year green packaging packaging is
one of today’s biggest concerns with
consumer products attempts to reduce or
eliminate packaging altogether are not
always cost-effective or practical the
PepsiCo subsidiary frito-lay has done
its part by introducing a 100%
compostable bag for its SunChips brand
after four years of development the bag
was introduced in 2010 the first
packaging of its kind in the snack food
world this bag is made primarily from
plant-based renewable materials derived
from starch this allows it to break down
an active compost in roughly 14 weeks
the bag was even certified by the
biodegradable products Institute which
is the only internationally recognized
labeling program highlighting the
importance of composting this initiative
was encouragement for the entire snack
food industry to develop and apply
ecologically friendly practices along
with their efforts and sustainable
packaging frito-lay has also reduced
waste water and energy consumption and
missions in their manufacturing and
distribution processes since 1999 the
company is managed to save 5.4 billion
litres of water they’ve also put into
place a program that sees their shipping
cartons reused five or six times before
being recycled with over 40 million
cartons being recycled to date the
bottled water industry is one that is
constantly working to improve their
effects on the environment with regards
to packaging biodegradable bottles made
from corn breakdown if they end up in a
landfill another packaging effort made
by PepsiCo is their eco FINA bottle for
their Aquafina water this bottle uses
half as much plastic as their previous
models launched in 2009 this switch
saves the company 75 million pounds of
plastic annually recycling programs
computer equipment is notoriously
difficult and expensive to dispose of in
2006 Dell was the first company in the
industry to offer a recycling program
for their old products the program has
expanded and used working computers can
be donated to nonprofit organizations
green products textile production is
also infamously rough on the environment
as a huge corporation Nike recognized
their impact on the planet because of
this they created a shoe made from
factory scraps brought to market in 2008
the sole of the trash talked shoe was
ground-up rubber from a shoe recycling
program they had previously implemented
reuse a shoe started in 1993 is a
program that recovers old shoes and
repurposes them into playgrounds
basketball courts running tracks and
other sports surfaces
from simply shutting off the lights to
creating a product that requires less
packaging to reducing carbon output the
efforts made by the world’s biggest
corporations can have an immense effect
on the future of the planet
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