With the increasing importance placed on sustainability
by both Sonoco and our customers, we proudly announce the
implementation of a program that acknowledges those facilities that take
considerable steps to achieve higher levels of sustainability. The Sonoco Sustainability Star Award program recognizes customers and Sonoco facilities for achieving significant milestones in landfill diversion and waste stream reduction, and is administered through Sonoco Recycling and Sonoco Sustainability Solutions, LLC (S3).
We fully expect this program to encourage even more of our customers to strive for significant reductions in landfill waste. Additionally, by recognizing the efforts of our own facilities, the new Sonoco Sustainability Star Award program furthers Sonoco’s goals of achieving landfill-free status at 10 percent of our plants by 2015.
The new awards program is comprised of three tiers:
- Gold recognizes facilities that have achieved 99% landfill diversion.
- Silver is awarded to facilities achieving 95% landfill diversion, and
- Bronze recognizes facilities that have made significant waste reduction achievements, such as drastically reducing their waste streams or implementing a new composting system.
A full list of Sonoco Sustainability Star Award winners is available below.
Gold:
Boeing South Carolina, North Charleston, S.C.
Cascades Sonoco, Birmingham, Ala.
Fruit of the Loom, Palmetto Distribution Center, Summerville, S.C.
Kraft Foods, Philadelphia, Pa.
Kraft Foods, LeHigh Valley, Pa.
Kraft Foods, Suffolk, Va.
P&G, Auburn, Maine
Sonoco CorrFlex, York, Pa.
Unilever, Suffolk, Va.
