McDonald’s Suppliers Make Impressive Progress Addressing Challenges Across the Globe

«Best of Sustainable Supply» Winners Exemplify the Company’s Commitment to Bettering the Planet, Enriching Communities & Serving High-Quality Food

 McDonald’s announces today its 2012 Best of Sustainable Supply Chain winners by highlighting 51 stories of supply chain partners addressing challenges to help improve food sources, the environment, communities and employee wellness across the world. McDonald’s received more than 400 submissions from 172 different suppliers, making the 2012 selection process the most difficult yet impactful to date.

Supply chain achievements spanned diverse areas including meeting zero waste-to-landfill targets, taking the plastic out of plastic bottles, teaching orphans how to raise chickens,

El futuro está en los supermercados ecológicos

Nadie podría desconocer el boom que han tenidos los productos ecológicos en todo el mundo, e incluso el explosivo crecimiento de los productos orgánicos en diferentes almacenes y tiendas de comida gourmet. Y claro el tema «verde» es una tendencia mundial y nadie se quiere quedar atrás, especialmente las grandes empresas.
Poco a poco hemos visto como los alimentos orgánicos ganan posiciones en las estanterías de las grandes cadenas de supermercados, pero esto no va a ser suficiente para el publico que cada vez demanda un mejor comportamiento por parte de las empresas.

Lowly beer bottle sets sustainability standard

The empties-deposit program was originally implemented to cut costs; later it was used as a way to control littering.

When Canada’s brewers first started putting a deposit on their beer bottles in the 1920s, they did it because it was the best way to cut bottling costs.

Then, in the 1970s, when governments began passing anti-litter regulations, the beer-bottle deposit was the best way to control littering.

Today, when consumer businesses are looking for ways to reduce their environmental footprint, again, it’s the lowly beer bottle that is showing the way.