Sustainability is More Than Meets the Eye | Sealed Air

  • 9 years ago
The positive impacts of the solutions Sealed Air delivers for our customers go far beyond what most initially imagine. Yes, our Food Care solutions help extend food freshness, our Product Care solutions help deliver products without damage, and our Diversey Care solutions help our customers keep their operations clean and running efficiently. But we are taking an increasingly deeper look at the full life cycle of our solutions to understand how Sealed Air’s diverse businesses impact not just our customers, but the world where we live and work.

During a recent trip to Indonesia, I had the opportunity to participate in one of our programs that exemplifies our sustainability work and the impact Sealed Air can make in local communities. My colleagues took me to Batam, an island about 12 miles south of Singapore, to see the benefits of our Soap for Hope (S4H) program. We partner with our customers to gather soap from hotel rooms that would otherwise be discarded, teach local communities to reprocess them into new bars, and distribute these new bars to people who otherwise might not have access to soap. S4H reduces costs and environmental impacts of transportation as compared to other soap recycling programs by decentralizing the reprocessing to local communities near partner hotels. These communities then benefit not just from increased access to basic hygiene but also by new job opportunities the program provides by training locals in the soap making process.

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