Month: September 2023

Originally published by Packaging Europe

Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is SEE (formerly Sealed Air) with its TempGuard insulated bag for chilled food products. We spoke to the company about this entry, nominated in the commercialized Recyclable Packaging category.

You’re a finalist in the Sustainability Awards 2023. Congratulations! To start off, could you summarize your entry, in less than 50 words?

Our entry is the Sealed Air® TempGuard gusset bag, a 100% paper based insulating pouch that keeps perishable food products fresh and chilled during transit, offering full curbside recyclability and a more efficient pack-out process. It is an alternative to non-recyclable plastic that often ends up in landfills.

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3BL is excited to bring our Network Effect series to Subaru of America’s headquarters on October 5 from 9 to 11:00 am! These events have been hosted all across the country, sparking impactful conversations on pressing sustainability and social impact issues and showcasing meaningful corporate initiatives.

Join us for Network Effect: PHL where senior leaders from a range of industries will come together to discuss:

How to foster community partnerships to elevate the impact of your organization’s initiativesWhy operationalizing ESG is imperative for a company to create positive change and how to break down silos to do soThe essentials of communicating ESG progress, including data, storytelling, measurable goals, reporting and more

The morning will close with an opportunity to deepen your network with other like-minded professionals driving meaningful change.

Register today at no cost! Breakfast is included.

At Cisco, we believe in powering an inclusive future for all by bringing communities together and creating meaningful change for everyone, including our planet. This is also clearly reflected in our culture of giving back. Each employee gets paid time off called Time2Give which they can use to volunteer for a cause that matters to them. I used one of these days last year to participate in a cleanup event in the Netherlands during World Cleanup Day.

Doing good for the planet does not only have to involve big actions, like buying an electric vehicle or switching to solar. Small actions are also impactful, especially when people work together.

The various actions you can take during World Cleanup Day every mid-September are a great example. On World Cleanup Day, millions of people from all around the world come together with their communities to make the world a bit cleaner. The event originated in Estonia in 2018, when 50,000 people united to clean up their country in just a few hours. This sparked a global movement and the idea spread fast.

Now, many different events are organized worldwide, and lots of locals are contributing by cleaning up their own neighborhood.

During last year’s World Cleanup Day, 15 million people participated in 190 different countries. The beauty of the event is that we’re not only making the earth a bit cleaner, but also the cooperation and collaboration between different communities is wonderful to see as well. It’s a great opportunity to reflect on all the litter in your area and how it got there. You’ll be surprised by all the things you can find while cleaning up your neighborhood.

The Cisco Amsterdam office has participated in this event for the past four years. Cisco Netherlands has raised thousands of euros for their charity partner the Plastic Soup Foundation. For the past three years we’ve been donating to this charity when we hold cleanup events, because the mission of this charity aligns with the mission of World Cleanup Day; to stop plastic pollution.

The Cisco Netherland’s team marked World Cleanup Day in 2022 through multiple cleanup activities. Over a four-day period, Cisco colleagues gathered in five different places across the Netherlands to clean up litter.

From gathering litter around the office area, to different cities like Amsterdam, Alkmaar, The Hague and Haarlem, nearly one-hundred people in total joined the cleanup activities!

Volunteering to pick up litter is not only impactful for your local community but can also be a fun group activity to get to know people, or in this case your colleagues.

I joined the cleanup event in the city of Hague. This was the first time that I participated in a cleanup activity since joining Cisco. After hearing about World Cleanup Day, I researched about litter in my country and the results shocked me. It is estimated that every year in the Netherlands, 50 million kilo of litter end up on the streets or the environment (source)! This made me think twice about all the litter that’s probably out on the streets in my area and motivated me even more to join the cleanup.

It was a very pleasant experience; I met new people and had great conversations with them while cleaning up. We had a lot to talk about since we ended up finding a lot of weird items, like an abandoned backpack with cigars. Guessing the background story of random items was a fun activity. We finished the day together with a snack to celebrate. It left me with a great feeling, and I knew I wanted to do activities like this more often. I now realize that doing it together with people is what makes an activity like this such a great experience.

Are you planning on participating in the next World Cleanup Day on September 16th? Here are some easy ways to get involved:

Gather your friends, family, or colleagues and unite to clean up your communityHelp make your own environment a bit cleaner by picking up any litter you come across while taking a walk or even running errandsSpread the word! Be an advocate for this great initiative by talking about it with others and sharing information about your cleanups on social media

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Originally published in Crown Holding’s 2022 Sustainability Report

This year, we again hold ourselves accountable to the commitments we have made to stakeholders to move Crown’s Twentyby30™ program forward. Now, more than two years into that journey, we need to speak to those commitments and to the progress we have made to this point.

You will see in this report that we are open about where we have progressed and where there is still work to be done. We acknowledge that achieving the aggressive goals we have set, both as a Company and as an industry, takes collective effort. That collaboration cannot be achieved without transparency and communication.

Since launching Twentyby30™ in 2020, our priority has been not just to set goals, but to actively roadmap our work to execute them. It is easy to establish targets, but the challenge is to continue to make progress toward those goals. While that progress cannot always be linear, we are furthering our efforts and are confident in our ability to ultimately meet our goals by 2030. Additionally, as we move through this decade, we are determined to pursue our targets in a way that is thoughtful, manageable and effective.

In 2022, we were able to demonstrate progress against several key areas of the Twentyby30™ program. For example, to support the goals in our Climate Action pillar, we continue to seek out opportunities for renewable energy sources, add major solar installations to existing and new plants and procure large-scale renewable projects. On the topic of circularity, we co-hosted the first Global Aluminium Can Sustainability Summit in partnership with the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and the International Aluminium Institute, which kickstarted important industry conversations. The event brought together all parts of the aluminum supply chain to discuss tactics for driving actionable progress toward the industry’s sustainability goals.

We are committed to being mindful in the procurement of our raw materials, and in 2022, we took steps to receive certification from the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) for our beverage can operations in Mexico, validating that we are operating ethically within the supply chain as we source our materials. This verification comes after our Brazilian operations’ ASI certification and will be followed by similar efforts in several of our operating regions.

In addition, we have elevated our involvement with key organizations to actively support the global progress against climate change. We made commitments to both the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and the CEO Water Mandate, which will hold us accountable for implementing more resourceful efficiency measures within our organization and working with our partners on larger goals.

These efforts were noticed by our sustainability peers this year, earning us recognition by Newsweek as one of America’s Most Responsible Companies, as well as being included among the 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2022 by 3BL Media and Forbes’ inaugural World’s Top Female-Friendly Companies. We are also especially proud to report that Sustainalytics ranked us as a leader in the top 3% of the containers and packaging industry for the third year in a row out of more than 100 global companies reviewed.

As always, I would like to express my gratitude for our teams around the world who are fostering this impactful change and helping us progress toward each of our sustainability goals. It is all of you who, through your creativity, ingenuity, passion and determination, have done the work to advance the Twentyby30™ program. I am proud to share that, although we are a few years from crossing the finish line, we are on the right path and we are not idle. We are progress in motion.

Thank you,

Tim Donahue

President, CEO & Chairman of the Board

To learn more about Crown Holdings’s commitment to sustainability, visit our sustainability webpage.

For full details about Crown Holdings’s 2022 Sustainability Report, visit here.