This past Earth Day, Sodexo’s Presidents’ Council approved our new Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability strategy, which will guide the company’s efforts throughout North America over the next eight years. The timing of the event would almost seem clichéd, if it weren’t for the fact that the meeting is held on the same day each month.
The strategy includes multi-year efforts to reduce our environmental footprint including greenhouse gas emissions, supporting farmers in every community where we do business, providing nutritious food to more than 9 million children and adults each day, and working to end hunger and malnutrition across the continent.
The company’s support for these efforts isn’t only sincere. It’s also built into the DNA of our company, showing themselves in innovations such as taking trays out of college cafeterias to conserve food and water. Going trayless in cafeterias is the equivalent of each college student skipping a shower a month... enough said about that. Sodexo also works with organizations like Farm 2 Fork and the Community Food Security Coalition as well as leading organizations like Business for Social Responsibility and the Society of Food Managers . Sodexo is at the center of bringing community and sustainability values to our industry and to the nation’s leading businesses.
It’s a powerful effort considering Sodexo works with more than 6,000 different schools, colleges, companies, hospital and government agency locations. When Sodexo makes a positive contribution in partnership with our thousands of clients, it’s a big one. Imagine 9 million people skipping a shower and all the water we would save!
One of the reasons Sodexo can make such a big difference is because it takes a global company to take on global challenges like hunger, water scarcity and climate change. And our industry is on the frontlines of protecting our planet. The food and agriculture industry uses more than 1/3 of all water used in the US and about 10% of all energy. Globally, one quarter of all arable land is dedicated to food and agriculture. So the improvements we make in our industry are just models for other to follow. In fact, Sodexo has received great recognition in this regard. In the U.S., Dow Jones recognized us as the best in our industry around sustainability, and we have had similar recognitions in the U.K. and globally.
Being part of a leading company at the frontlines of sustainability is a great reason to come to Sodexo and work to make every day a better day and every tomorrow a better tomorrow.
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