Flowers Foods recognizes that without a healthy environment, it cannot be successful.
Our company is committed to applying the principles of sustainability to all aspects of our business. We encourage every Flowers Foods employee and associate to accept responsibility for conserving natural resources and for seeking ways to improve the company's use of those resources.
Working together with our employees, team members, business partners, suppliers, and customers, Flowers Foods strives to prevent waste of water, packaging, energy, and other resources through the following initiatives:
- Recycle and reduce use of resources at all locations
- Reduce fuel and energy consumption at all locations
- Seek innovations to reduce the use of non-renewable resources
- Further integrate sustainability into the company's core processes
- Require suppliers to embrace sustainability initiatives
- Educate our workforce regarding sustainability
- Participate in community efforts to encourage sustainability
Flowers Foods' commitment to sustainability makes us a stronger corporate citizen as we do what is right for all our stakeholders and the environment.
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As reported in our 2008 Sustainability Report, posted 12/09, we have:
- Improved our operational efficiency and reduced waste by selling more while producing less.
- Set sustainability targets for 2015.
- Achieved a recycling rate of 30% of total trash collected in 2008.
- Decreased total water usage by more than 1 million gallons.
- Saved 496,000 therms of natural gas and reduced electricity usage by 2.444 million kilowatt hours.
- Eliminated 192,000 transport miles by baking products closer to customers and maximizing trailer space and back hauls.
- Cut 202,000 miles of truck transport by shipping snack cakes by rail.
- Reduced the paperboard content of our multipacks snack cake packaging to save 126,000 pounds of paperboard or 630 trees a year.
- Reduced the size of our bun bags by 14%, saving 140,000 pounds of plastic annually.
- Installed a system to monitor gas, electric, and water usage at our newest bakery in Bardstown, Ky., to better understand how our bakeries use these resources and explore ways to reduce that consumption.
- Established Green Teams at each of our bakeries.
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As part of our sustainability effort, we are rolling out employee-member Green Teams at each of our bakery subsidiaries to raise sustainability awareness among employees and associates and help implement sustainable actions that will help reduce waste and improve profitability.
Green Team members are volunteers that span the spectrum of functions and experience levels at our bakeries. They are individuals who have an interest in and a concern for the environment. |
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