Environment
We surpassed our water reduction goal and joined the Ceres and World Wildlife Fund AgWater Challenge.
2016 Highlights
We are inspired to do our part in making the world a better place. That’s why we place great emphasis on the environment when producing products for customers and consumers around the world.
To minimize our environmental impact, we’ve set goals to reduce our non-renewable energy use, water use, solid waste sent to landfills and greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent by 2020. These goals are established on a target to implement projects that provide absolute reductions equaling 10 percent of our base-year level (2011). To help meet these environmental goals across the company, we invest in our facilities and establish specific metrics to improve the efficiency of our operations.
In addition to these goals, we also aim to reduce our product packaging by 25 million pounds by 2020. Our packaging team regularly evaluates our packaging design, consistently looking for minimization opportunities.
2016 Progress
In 2016, we were proud to announce our participation in the Ceres and World Wildlife Fund AgWater Challenge. Through this initiative, we will work with growers in our supply chain to reduce water use and improve water quality. We will provide updates on our progress through this challenge in future reports.
Hormel Foods cares about its people, the environment and the quality of products it makes. That is what makes me love coming to work every day.
Pat, 21 years of service
Our Environmental Progress
Reduce non-renewable energy use, water use, solid waste sent to landfills and greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent, and to reduce product packaging by 25 million pounds.
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Surpassed Goals
Solid Waste Reduction Goal Surpassed
We surpassed our goal of reducing solid waste sent to landfills in 2014 and continue to implement projects to achieve additional reductions.
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Surpassed Goals
Water Reduction Goal Surpassed
We surpassed our water reduction goal during 2016 and will continue to drive projects to achieve additional reductions.
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$4.8MIn Facility Improvements
We Are On Track To Achieve Our Remaining Environmental Goals
We implemented more than $4.8 million in facility improvements in 2016 and joined the Ceres and World Wildlife Fund AgWater Challenge to work with growers in our supply chain to reduce water use and improve water quality.
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Notes
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G4-EN31
Total environmental protection expenditures and investments by type.