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Originally published on Built From Scratch

As the weather warms up and the flowers begin to bloom, it’s time to start thinking about spring cleaning your home – both inside and out. Be mindful of the impact traditional landscaping and cleaning habits can have on the environment and consider some of these sustainable products and equipment to help minimize your carbon footprint. 

INSIDE  

Glad Force Flex Drawstring Odor Shield Trash Bags 

Made with post-consumer recycled materials Produced using materials diverted away from landfills  Available in three different scents, exclusively at The Home Depot  

Harris Vinegar All-Purpose Cleaner Concentrate 

Multiple uses around the home and garden Chemical-free so it’s safe around kids and pets Citrus and lavender scents exclusive to The Home Depot 

OUTSIDE 

RIDGID Battery-Powered Lawn Equipment 

Ergonomic designs that reduce strain and help limit physical fatigue Lighter, more portable, with longer runtimes Brushless technology increases efficiency and extends the life of the motor 

RYOBI Whisper Series 

Eliminates gas emissions Premium yet quiet performance with simple charging Exclusively available at The Home Depot 

 Visit homedepot.com for more spring-cleaning tips and DIY ideas for the whole home. 

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Originally published on Essity.com

Winning with people and culture

Essity offers attractive, inclusive, and sustainable workplaces with committed employees that help break barriers to well-being in a unique corporate culture.

Leadership

We are convinced that good leadership is fundamental in creating a strong culture and achieving world-class results. Our leadership platform defines the competences required by Essity’s leaders and offers guidance in recruitment and development efforts. We constantly endeavor to develop and deliver Essity’s global leadership program and other upskilling activities, as part of our global Leadership Academy.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

Essity’s commitment in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is specified in the Group’s targets. According to our commitment, gender distribution at all management levels is to be within the interval 40/60% no later than 2025. In 2022, we outlined a global roadmap to deliver our DEI goals. Essity’s DEI efforts are firmly supported by the company’s Beliefs and Behaviors and its purpose. Moreover, they help to increase our innovative capacity, and to attract and retain employees. Our focus on DEI is also important for our customers and consumers, as we contribute to a more sustainable society.

Essity’s Beliefs and Behaviors

The aim to break barriers to well-being forms the foundation of Essity’s corporate culture and is reflected in our Beliefs and Behaviors, which serve as a compass for how we work, make decisions and cooperate with each other.

We are committed to delivering superior resultsWe have the courage to take the leadWe care for our customers, consumers, the environment and each otherWe collaborate across teams, functions and businesses

Building for the future

The continuous development of employees and leaders is crucial for Essity’s long-term success and its opportunity to attract and retain the right talent and skills. Learning and development is a fundamental part of our employees’ everyday life and takes place through practical experience, training and colleagues. We drive the development of talent and individual development plans based on business requirements, personal strengths and development areas.

Essity runs both leadership and functional academies as well as a range of different mentorship and coaching programs. We are continuing our shift from traditional to digital learning and are exploring new technologies that can help us make learning part of day-to-day work.

Attracting and retaining talent

Essity aims to attract and engage the talent of today for the Essity of tomorrow. We focus on communicating our employer offering to specific target groups and build relationship and recruit talent on and offline. To ensure a strong inflow of new talent, we run programs targeting recent graduates, such as Essity Go!

We reward employees using a Total Reward approach, which entails a mixture of monetary and non-monetary components. We offer market-competitive remuneration comprising salary, variable remuneration, pension and other benefits. Essity follows local salary structures and respects internationally established rules for minimum wages and reasonable compensation. The variable remuneration programs cover most employees at Essity. Our workplace philosophy is to offer a work environment with attractive offices and flexibility, as well as Group-level health and safety programs.

Our priorities for employees and culture aim to make us an attractive employer and to develop a culture and skillset that satisfy the company’s needs. The priorities are divided into four target areas.

A culture where people thrive.Learning as part of everyday work.Attract and retain the right talents.A safe, sustainable and healthy workplace.

Read more about Essity’s strategic priorities, earnings and leading sustainability work in the Annual and Sustainability Report 2022, which can be downloaded at www.essity.com.

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Originally published on HARMAN Sustainability Report

Our legacy of innovation is built on thoughtful design and purpose-driven values. These motivating factors are clear now more than ever as we work to reduce the environmental footprint of our products and their packaging. Reducing product-level emissions is an important step to help HARMAN reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2040.

Since the 2020 launch of the JBL Flip 5 Eco edition, HARMAN’s first portable Bluetooth speaker made from 90% recycled plastic, our efforts to reduce our products’ carbon footprints have accelerated. In 2021, we introduced our eco-friendly InfinityLab power accessories, including wall chargers, power banks, wireless stands, and a speakerphone, which are all made from 90% recycled plastic.

HARMAN is also taking a keen eye to reduce emissions related to packaging. We are integrating sustainability into our packaging by:

Reducing packaging sizeUsing eco-friendly paper packaging and inner traysTransitioning to post-consumer recycled plastic and paper for almost all new Consumer Audio product packaging in 2022Printing with biodegradable soy ink in 95% of our packagingEliminating non-essential power cords to minimize waste

The packaging of our InfinityLab power accessories is right-sized to the product and is made from plastic-free materials printed on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper with soy-based ink. Additionally, the accessories’ cables are woven from recycled polyester yarn and the InstantConnect cable is made from PVC-free materials with a TPE protection layer.

In 2022, we will introduce 4 new products made from up to 90% post-consumer recycled plastic and up to 100% recycled fabric. We are phasing in PVC-free power cords for Harman Kardon in Europe. 14 products will be certified under the EPA Energy Star label. We also have the ambition to increase product longevity by strengthening robustness, enabling easy repair, and facilitating recycling.

Our goal is to produce products that provide value in a way that respects both planetary and human health. We are looking forward to continuing to share developments and new product launches that serve this goal.

To learn more, download the HARMAN 2021 Sustainability report here

The theme of this year’s Earth Day on April 22 is Invest in Our Planet. It’s the 53rd Earth Day since the inaugural event in 1970 that kicked off the modern environmental movement. Not long after, in the early 1980’s, scientists realized the Earth’s natural sunscreen was thinning dramatically over Antarctica. It spurred a coordinated global effort to reduce and/or replace ozone depleting substances. Today, the hole in the ozone continues to close and it is expected to heal by mid-century.[i]

This success story gives insights into how we can tackle an even more complex threat, climate change. With the ten warmest years on record having all occurred since 2010, including the last nine years (2014-2022) among them,[ii] there is palpable sense of urgency to scale more effective action. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says to avoid the worse impacts of climate change, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions need to be cut in half by 2030[iii] and to “net zero” by 2050.[iv]

Technology continues to play an increasingly important role in transitioning toward a low carbon and sustainable economy. As a leading semiconductor company, a top priority at AMD is designing and delivering leadership products that advance energy efficiency for high performance and adaptive computing. We aim to help others achieve their IT performance needs while reducing IT-related energy, emissions and operating cost. Through innovations in architecture, packaging and software, AMD continues to make strong progress, including powering 75 percent of the top 20 most energy efficient supercomputers (November 2022 Green 500 list).

Another focus area for AMD and the industry is addressing GHG emissions in the manufacturing supply chain. CDP estimates that supply chain emissions are on average 11.4 times higher than operational emissions.[v] AMD works closely with our manufacturing suppliers across a variety of sustainability metrics, including progress toward our 2025 goals for 100 percent of these suppliers to have their own GHG goals and 80 percent to source renewable energy. In 2023, AMD was again honored to be recognized by CDP as a Supplier Engagement Leader (2022, 2021, 2019), an honor reserved for the top 8 percent of CDP survey respondents for actions to help reduce emissions and climate risks in the supply chain.

Collective efforts are increasingly important as our industry mobilizes across the value chain to scale climate solutions. To support these efforts, AMD joined many of our suppliers and customers when we became a founding member of the Semiconductor Climate Consortium late last year. The Consortium convened 70+ companies around the shared purpose to reduce GHG emissions across the electronics value chain. AMD was also selected to be a founding participant in the Responsible Business Alliance’s Senior Environmental Advisory Taskforce. The taskforce shapes the sustainability strategy for the world’s largest industry coalition dedicated to corporate social responsibility in global supply chains.

Meanwhile at AMD, our own workforce and operational presence grew in 2022 following two strategic acquisitions that strengthened our company’s continued opportunities for ongoing technology and product leadership, market diversification and expanded customer partnerships. Yet by increasing renewable energy sourcing and implementing energy conservation projects, we continued to execute toward our public goal to cut AMD global operational GHG absolute emissions in half by 2030 (compared to 2020 base year). 

I look forward to celebrating this Earth Day with countless AMDers around the globe in AMD-sponsored events or individual efforts. Employee activities include participating in our “get-one-give-one tree” program in North America, cleaning up local parks in Canada and Ireland, making seed balls in India for the upcoming monsoon season, and organizing a recycle and donation drive in Malaysia to get clothes and blankets to those in need. It brings me great pride to be a part of it all, including helping to navigate the broader industry pathway to climate protection.

For more information on our environmental sustainability programs and initiatives, please visit: https://www.amd.com/en/corporate-responsibility/environmental-sustainability 
 

Footnotes: 
i https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/12/ozone-layer-hole-update-nasa/

ii https://www.noaa.gov/news/2022-was-worlds-6th-warmest-year-on-record  

iii Slide 9: https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6syr/pdf/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SlideDeck.pdf

vi Page 33: IPCC_AR6_SYR_LongerReport.pdf

v https://www.cdp.net/en/research/global-reports/transparency-to-transformation

Rooted in service and committed to helping build stronger communities, Aramark encourages employees to give back around the world and throughout the year—focusing on developing relationships with nonprofit organizations and community leaders to enrich the neighborhoods where Aramark teams, clients, and customers live and work.

The company’s strategic approach to community service, called Aramark Building Community, centers on three pillars:

How WE CARE for the community and support issues important to the people in them;What WE GIVE through strategic investments and by donating time, knowledge, and resources; andWhat WE DO through employee volunteerism and engagement.

Aramark Building Community Day

Aramark dedicates one day each year to a global day of service called Aramark Building Community Day. On this day, thousands of volunteers from more than a dozen countries dedicate their time, energy, and expertise to conduct service projects in their local neighborhoods.

The 10th annual Aramark Building Community Day will be held April 27, 2023.

Thousands of employee volunteers will participate in projects benefiting 140 community organizations in 13 countries, working with children and families to increase access to healthy food and nutrition education, empower workforce preparedness, and to improve community centers and environments.

Since the day of service began in 2014, Aramark employee volunteers have served more than 1.9 million people in their local neighborhoods.

“Our volunteers see the immediate impact they are making in someone’s life on Aramark Building Community Day, and they are experiencing it standing next to Aramark people they know and others they’ve never met before. It’s powerful,” said Jami Leveen, Vice President, Aramark Community Partnerships. “I am so proud to be a part of something that means so much to so many people.”

Many Aramark employees participate in Aramark Building Community Day every year. Find out what motivates three of these stand-out volunteers to give back in the stories below.

MaryJo McLoughlin

MaryJo McLoughlin, RD, LD, a District Manager with Aramark Student Nutrition, has been at the company nearly 38 years—and has always made giving back part of her mission.

“I started with Aramark in 1985—and started volunteering almost from the beginning,” said McLoughlin. “It wasn’t called Aramark Building Community then, but that’s where our hearts were. Every time we had a client event, we would make sure there was a charitable or volunteer component attached.”

McLoughlin grew up on the south side of Chicago, and much of her volunteering has been focused in areas in and around the city.

“It’s important to me to work with children and adults in communities teaching them about health and wellness,” said McLoughlin, who is a Registered Dietitian and a co-chair for Aramark’s dietitian-led employee resource group NOURISH. “But I can’t tell you how great it is on Aramark Building Community Day, working half the day as a dietitian teaching people about healthy food and grocery shopping and then the other half of the day painting a parking lot!”

Community events in which McLoughlin has participated over the years include teaching nutrition classes at YMCAs and pre-schools; taking high school students grocery shopping and then guiding them through mindfulness exercises; learning how to lay tile; organizing book, clothes, and food drives; volunteering with Wreaths Across America to place wreaths on military members’ graves; giving interviewing guidance for people searching for jobs; devoting time to various school wellness committees in Chicagoland; and packaging food for food banks.

McLoughlin described a time when she knew her volunteer efforts were making a difference.

“Once we were in Humboldt Park doing healthy cooking and nutrition demonstrations, and I saw a woman cowering in the corner and not really participating,” said McLoughlin. “I found out later she left her home because of physical violence and she was standing back because she couldn’t be near a camera. So many people like her desperately need the services those community centers provide.”

In addition to the impact provided in the communities, the collaboration with other Aramark people has been incredibly valuable to McLoughlin.

“ABC Day events expose you to people from several [Aramark] lines of business. You could be there with a hammer in your hand but you learn so much from the conversations happening around you,” she said. “It’s a day unlike any other when you’re totally dedicated to giving back to the community. You do other things in your normal job. This day, your time is spent giving back.”

Adrienne Morris

Adrienne Morris, Human Resources Manager with Aramark Collegiate Hospitality at Mississippi State University (MSU), started leading the onsite dining services team in community service projects shortly after she joined the company in 2014.

“I think our first project was a canned food drive with a nearby church that has a food pantry,” said Morris. “The church said they could never get enough bags prepared for clients and our team went in and prepped 200 bags in an hour.”

MSU is based in Starkville, Mississippi and the Aramark team partners a lot with Starkville Strong, a nonprofit organization that helps people in the community with everything from homelessness to food insecurity.

“There are a lot of different needs in our community,” said Morris. “We donated a grant to Starkville Strong and prepared ‘joy packs’ for the holidays that had food, personal hygiene products, and winter clothing. This year for ABC Day, we’re volunteering at their food pantry. They’re expecting about 300 people from the community.”

When asked what motivates Morris to lead volunteer projects year after year, she reflects on a favorite quote.

“A quote I lean toward is, ‘We rise by lifting others.’ It means as much to me being in HR as it does when I think about serving the community,” said Morris. “When I think about food insecurity, I think people might also be looking for jobs. Volunteering like this helps you understand and address other needs in the community.”

Morris says Aramark Building Community Day sets the tone for the team’s year of volunteering, but that it doesn’t start and end with that day.

They work with community partner Casserole Kitchen that serves hot meals three times a week. The Aramark team at MSU sponsors one of those days every month. They organize blood drives one or two times a year and have made goodie bags to thank first responders for their ongoing efforts.

During last year’s water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, the team partnered with the university and donated bottled water. They’re currently exploring ways to help people being impacted by storms in the area.

“I don’t ever underestimate finding ways to connect Aramark to the community,” said Morris. “Many people don’t realize Aramark is in so many places—and our people are volunteering around the world. Community partners are ‘wowed’ by it. Employees are inspired by it. New students at our university connect to it. We all get busy with work and our lives. Sometimes we have to stop and ask, ‘How else can we make an impact?’”

Carl Mittleman

A leader at Aramark for 26 years, Carl Mittleman, Chief Operating Officer, Aramark International, never hesitates when it comes to giving back during Aramark Building Community Day.

“ABC Day is one time of year when we come together from different lines of business, with different roles and backgrounds, and work to focus on a common goal,” said Mittleman. Whether we’re refurbishing a community center, or working in a neighborhood, or providing healthy meals to people, it’s a very rewarding experience.”

He lives with his family in Denver, so Mittleman’s volunteer projects in that city are near and dear to his heart. This year, he will be in Denver again, working with the Southwest Improvement Council (SWIC), where he had his first Aramark Building Community Day experience.

Mittleman also remembers a fulfilling experience at an Aramark Building Community Day in Boston when he was part of Aramark Sports + Entertainment.

“It was great meeting people I didn’t know,” he said. “We did three different projects throughout Boston that day. To build a bench with somebody from Aramark Healthcare+ and to find out what’s going on is so beneficial. It’s a great chance to connect.”

However, he noted that Aramark Building Community Day is a time when work becomes second and communities come first.

“The personal satisfaction you get from volunteering and working on projects is significant,” he said. “To see the looks on the faces of the people in the community—the kids seeing the gym you just re-painted and the gratitude from the community leaders—it’s all incredible.

“I encourage all my colleagues to get out and volunteer on an Aramark Building Community project. Anyone can give up a few hours of their day to make someone’s life better.”

A Decade of Impact

Since its first project in 2014, ABC Day has engaged nearly 55,000 Aramark employee volunteers and given back to almost 2 million community members. Over the years, volunteers have supported the communities where they live and work by hosting projects, planting community gardens, serving nearly 210,000 meals and collecting more than 161,000 pounds of food.

Since its inception in 2008, Aramark Building Community, the company’s signature philanthropic and volunteer initiative, has invested tens of millions of dollars, engaged more than 70,000 employee volunteers, and impacted more than five million children and families in underserved communities around the world. 

Learn More: Celebrating 10 Years of ABC Day (Mark in Motion)

Originally published by Upworthy

We’ve all been hearing urgent warnings from scientists, government, and corporate leaders on the need to limit the planet’s global temperature warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change.

Several studies, including research from the National Academy of Sciences indicate if we continue on the path we are on, we will likely hit that pivotal moment of global warming in the early 2030s. It’s clear that more needs to be done —and faster—to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and secure a thriving and sustainable economy for everyone.

Broader research is also showing people care more than ever about what companies are doing to address this challenge. In a 2022 global survey from IBM, 51% of respondents said environmental sustainability is more important to them now than it was the year before. And a 2022 Yale survey found that 51% of U.S. business students would even take lower pay to work for a company with better environmental practices — a signal of the topic’s importance.

T-Mobile is an example of a company that has led the wireless industry in these efforts starting with its pledge in 2018 to source 100% of its total electricity usage with renewable energy and being the first in U.S. wireless to set science-based carbon reduction goals and then reach them in 2021. This year, T-Mobile stepped up even more by becoming the first U.S. wireless provider to announce a net-zero target for its entire carbon footprint.

Mike Sievert, T-Mobile’s CEO, is encouraging others to join in on developing bold sustainability commitments because its critical companies lead by example with real action. “We’ve made the decision as a company to move beyond managing risks and begin to take intentional measures — bigger than ever before — that will ensure a sustainable future for us all,” Sievert said in his recent blog. “I’d like to see even more businesses like ours do the same. There is strength in numbers, and more important, there are common practices that we could jointly develop and share.”

These efforts are not just good for the planet, it’s also good business. Independent nonprofit, JUST Capital, recently found that companies like T-Mobile that are recognized on its annual list of America’s Most JUST Companies on average have a 4.5% higher profit margin, 2.4% higher return on equity, and paid 5 times more in dividends than those that didn’t. Environmental sustainability is a significant factor defining whether a company is “JUST.”

With T-Mobile taking bold steps, how will the company reach its net-zero goal?

Upworthy spoke with Brigitta Witt, T-Mobile’s vice president of social impact and sustainability, and she explained the path the company is taking to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040.

“We are taking definitive actions and have already made considerable progress by decommissioning old or unneeded network equipment, upgrading to eco-friendly cooling systems and implementing energy-efficient software across about half of our network sites,” Witt told Upworthy. “We’re diversifying our renewable energy investments and transitioning to electricity sources that have lower emissions, while also ramping up investments in community solar projects across the country to help generate clean energy to reduce the use of fossil fuels with solar and wind power.”

The company’s transition to 5G also plays a big role in the road to net-zero. Even though the equipment uses more energy than previous generations, it uses less per bit of data it transmits, making it much more efficient.

“According to Accenture, 5G technologies could help enable up to one-fifth of the carbon reductions required under the U.S. climate change target by 2025,” Witt told Upworthy.

The biggest challenge to T-Mobile’s ambitious climate goals is the emissions generated by its value chain.

“We are working with our suppliers and engaging customers to help reduce their carbon footprints, which in turn helps us reduce our scope 3 emissions,” Witt said. “We will also continue to look at emerging trends, innovative solutions and global landscape evolution as we build out our strategy over the next two decades.”

T-Mobile reinforced its commitment by joining The Climate Pledge, which encourages companies to work together to accelerate climate action across all industries. “It aligns our company with nearly 400 like-minded companies and organizations that believe investing in sustainability is key to long-term success,” Witt said.

In addition to leading the wireless industry and committing to a net-zero goal T-Mobile is also encouraging customers to help through a Device Reuse and Recycling Program, which led to 11.6M customer devices being reused, resold, or recycled for free in 2021.

Ultimately, T-Mobile is committed to being an even greater force for good in wireless and the world in which we live and is all in on its relentless pursuit of progress in sustainability.

“We know we can’t be the best at connecting customers to their world without also taking on the challenge of changing our industry, for the better, and making a positive impact on the world around us,” Witt told Upworthy. “And sustainability commitments are no exception—and we won’t stop using our expanded network, scale and resources to help create a connected world where everyone can thrive.”

When I came to Gilead in 2019, I did so in part because of the revolutionary way this company thinks about bringing therapies to those who could benefit. Health equity and access are more than goals or ambitions – they’re woven into the fabric of who we are and what we do. Gilead has a long legacy of making medicines available around the world, working toward the goal of ensuring cost isn’t a barrier to access.

Across our therapeutic areas, we’re working diligently to help remove barriers to access, especially in areas that are most acutely impacted by the diseases on which we focus. In our efforts in HIV in the United States, for example, we work closely with patient advocacy groups, providers and healthcare systems to support education, outreach and access initiatives in the communities that would most benefit from prevention or treatment.

Outside the United States, Gilead has partnered with governments and communities to reduce the disproportionate burden of multiple diseases in dozens of countries. We’ve signed non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreements in HIV and viral hepatitis, as well as in COVID-19, which we offered royalty-free. Last year we were proud to reach the milestone of making more than 30 million treatments available around the world, primarily in low- and low-middle-income countries. This includes 8 million people who have been treated with our antiviral therapy for COVID-19 to date. In addition, our Global Patient Solutions business unit serves approximately 96 resource-limited countries in Africa, India and Southeast and Central Asia, which account for roughly 4 billion people, of whom more than 30 million are living with HIV.

Effectively expanding access to new medicines across our therapeutic areas is an important, but complicated endeavor, and one that requires political commitments to public health, strong healthcare infrastructure, well-trained health workforces, investment in screening and linkage to care and empowered patient communities. We’ll continue working with partners around the world to make progress in these areas. Time is of the essence, especially as we prepare for potential new HIV prevention options in development in our journey to help end the epidemic for everyone, everywhere.

We must rethink our access strategies across every disease area, and to illustrate why that’s important, HIV again provides an interesting example. There remains a large unmet need for HIV prevention options. Only about one in four people in the United States who could benefit from pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are using it, and those numbers are even lower in Europe. As we pursue and potentially launch other options, we continue to face many headwinds, including limited access to affordable healthcare, low awareness of prevention medicine among healthcare providers and potential users, stigma, discrimination and other structural inequities. That is an imposing list, but the opportunities are even more inspiring. We’ll need to work closely with governments, medical organizations, community groups, policymakers, people who could benefit from PrEP and other stakeholders to come up with solutions and ensure that the therapies are accessible to all who need them.

We have a lot of work ahead of us, but I’m inspired and energized by the future. And I’m proud to work for an organization that not only strives to deliver innovative medicines but that takes a holistic approach to breaking down barriers to access.

Johanna Mercier is Chief Commercial Officer at Gilead.

Originally published by Gilead Sciences

Whirlpool Corporation announced that it has been named one of Newsweek’s Most Trustworthy Companies in 2023. To create the list, Newsweek partnered with Statista, a leading provider of market and consumer data, to evaluate companies’ business practices and relationships with key stakeholders. The recognition reinforces Whirlpool Corporation’s commitment to always do right by its employees, customers, investors, communities, and the planet.

“At Whirlpool Corporation, we believe there is no right way to do the wrong thing and have built our business through core values such as integrity and respect, “ said Ava Harter, global chief legal officer for Whirlpool Corporation. “We are honored that Newsweek has recognized our commitment to these enduring values and I want to thank our employees worldwide for putting our culture of integrity into action and earning the trust of our consumers each and every day.”

We are honored that Newsweek has recognized our commitment to these enduring values and I want to thank our employees worldwide for putting our culture of integrity into action and earning the trust of our consumers each and every day.”

As part of its ongoing commitment to integrity, Whirlpool Corporation maintains a robust Global Ethics and Compliance program that is focused on enhancing and sustaining the corporate culture and empowering employees to make ethical decisions. As part of these efforts, Whirlpool Corporation launched its Integrity Manual in 2019, which outlines the company’s values and helps translate these values into everyday actions. The manual also provides employees with tools and resources to act with integrity within a risk-based framework.

In addition to its Global Ethics and Compliance program, Whirlpool Corporation continues to build trust with its consumers by providing high-quality products, industry-leading customer service, groundbreaking innovation, and an unwavering responsibility to the communities in which it operates.

America’s Most Trustworthy Companies in 2023 were identified based on a sample of approximately 25,000 U.S. residents who rated companies on three main public pillars of trust: customer trust, investor trust, and employee trust. A total of 95,000 evaluations were submitted and the top 700 Most Trustworthy Companies across 23 industries have been chosen based on a holistic approach to evaluating trust.

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Originally published by Waste Today

Juno, a recycling technology pioneered by Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific (GP), has been recognized by three entities for innovation and sustainability and the impact it is having on recycling and landfill diversion.

GP developed the technology to recycle highly contaminated recovered fiber and mixed materials, piloting it at its plant in Savannah, Georgia, starting in 2013. It installed the technology at its Toledo, Oregon, material recovery facility (NRF), which opened in the spring of 2021.

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Where do we stand in the fight against climate change? What is the role of food and agriculture in the climate conversation? How should we look at the results of the recent 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt and what needs to happen leading up to COP28?

In a new episode of “Headlines of the Future”, the former Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, Ertharin Cousin, and Bayer’s Head of Public Affairs, Science and Sustainability, Matthias Berninger, explore these questions. Join them inside the conference rooms of COP27 for on the ground conversations with high-level climate experts from WWF, the World Resources Institute, Nature Conservancy and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Headlines of the Future

Ertharin Cousin is a member of the Supervisory Board of Bayer AG and an internationally renowned expert in the area of nutrition and agriculture. She served as executive director of the UN World Food Programme in Rome from 2012 until 2017 and is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a think tank dedicated to topics such as global food security and nutrition, urbanization, energy and water supply. Cousin also serves as a Visiting Scholar in the Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Center for Food Security and Matthias Berninger is Global Head of Public Affairs, Science & Sustainability at Bayer. In his role, he has strengthened Bayer’s global public affairs practice and leads the development of a coherent global sustainability strategy that has been be published in December 2019. Matthias has seen many sides of the food and agriculture space over the course of his career: in the public sector, he was a vice minister in Germany’s Green Party; and in the private sector, he previously worked on health and nutrition strategy at Mars.

“Compared to previous years, the most glaring difference was the fact that agriculture and food security were even on the agenda of COP27.”
Ertharin Cousin, Supervisory Board of Bayer AG

“If we create a food system that reduces carbon emissions, that removes carbon out of the atmosphere, and if we make this food system resilient, we actually have not a problem, but an engine to solve the climate problem.”
Matthias Berninger, Global Head of Public Affairs, Science & Sustainability

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