5 Companies With Great Environmental Initiatives

A company uses a variety of resources from nature to run its business and at the same time, knowingly or unknowingly, harms the environment as well. Various business activities carried out by business groups results in pollution and hampers sustainable development. In order to keep the environment safe and clean, many companies in current times take initiatives towards going green. It’s a fact that businesses that serve nature today will thrive in the future. It is beneficial from the point of view of the environment and all the stakeholders. A proper balance between business and nature is necessary for the smooth running of business activities.

In recent years, many companies have taken various environmental initiatives to ‘Go Green’.

Here are a few great environmental initiatives are taken by some of the companies:

Unilever

Unilever launched its sustainable living plans in 2010 to support a green environment. They always believe in producing innovative products by keeping in mind customers' needs, tastes, and preferences. An example of this includes dry shampoos that reduce GHG emissions and water use. They have also run hand washing campaigns to aware people of its importance.

Zomato

Zomato recycles oil-filled containers of restaurants to biodiesel. Zomato collects oil-filled containers from restaurants, processes the quality oil and delivers it to biodiesel manufacturing units. All these initiatives are taken as per the RUCO initiative of FSSAI. Zomato also fights against food wastage and hunger by providing excess food to the less fortunate.

Coca-cola

Coca-cola has taken eco-friendly green initiatives by way of water-preservation, energy and weather protection, and sustainable packaging. It also engages in community recycling programs, focuses on green packaging and ensures effective use of energies in production and supplies.

Star-bucks

Starbucks, the Indian joint venture of coffee brands with Tata have decided to go green in 2019 with compostable wooden cutlery & stirrers, paper cups & straws, glassware instead of plastic for all food and beverages. The company plans to use 100% environmentally friendly packaging in its operations.

Nestle Maggi

Nestle has announced to make its brands ‘Maggi’ and ‘KitKat’ plastic neutral as a part of their green initiatives. Nestle also offered return policies to support its plastic management initiatives. Consumers can exchange 10 empty packets of Maggi noodles for one fresh packet. This program is started in two places at Uttarakhand as its been observed that consumers do not dispose of empty packets in a proper way.  This resulted in plastic pollution at most visited hill stations in Uttarakhand.

Every big and small company should focus on running eco-friendly activities. Every small business, restaurants, motels, manufacturing industries can try to go green as much as they can. Every day, many of the industries generate various organic scrap materials at their manufacturing units or canteens. One can think of disposing of this scrap in an eco-friendly manner to save the environment.

Such small business sectors can install waste composting machine-like Goldust on their premises. Goldust automatically decomposes scrap within a few hours and generates organic manure. It’s an odorless, noiseless and maintenance-free process. Industries can decompose biodegradable scrap materials, canteen waste, etc with the help of Goldust and imitate ‘Go Green’ initiatives in its operations. Proper disposal of such wet materials creates larger and long term impacts on the environment. Contact LAHS Eco Engineering for more information.