Sonoco’s goal is to create sustainable value for the Company and its customers by:
- Enhancing use of sustainable packaging solutions
- Using more sustainable materials
- Providing commercial waste reduction services
- Expanding community-based recycling programs
- Developing renewable energy partnerships
Highlights
- Sonoco is a member of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition
- Named to the KLD Domini 400 Social Index
- Named to the prestigious Dow-Jones Sustainability World Index
Economic Performance Successes
- Established the True Blue™ brand, a new umbrella brand for packaging solutions and recycling services which offer our customers environmental advantages over the solutions and services they are intended to replace, either through the use of more sustainable materials, material source reductions or reduced consumption and emissions
- Collected and measured Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions from key strategic suppliers, which represents over 75% of spending
- Collected globally 3 million tons of paper, plastic, metal and other materials to be recycled from more than 15,000 major retailers, manufacturers and municipalities
- Diverted over 10,000 tons of potential landfill waste from internal and customer locations per month