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Maintaining sustainable practices is important for Nestle and many other companies as the world continues to use natural resources ensuring that environmental and social sustainability is maintained. Environmental stability considerations that are part of Nestles operation to sustain resources are through clean and eco friendly manufacturing. Manufacturing facilities us Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI's) a measurement practice used to test air acidification, ozone depleting substances, energy consumptions, green house gases and by products/waste generation. Nestle is focused on clean packaging ensuring that reusable resources and recycling are a continuing focus. Nestle is focused on water use to help preserve and ensure that quality and quantity is being controlled. As a company Nestle has generated a long term water policy that helps to ensure quality testing and preservation of water resources are being managed to for the safety of its consumers.

"As we have grown from humble beginnings into the world's largest food company, we have attempted to take the fundamental cultural values of environmental preservation and cleanliness into every country where we operate - Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, CEO, Nestlé S.A., Nestlé Environment Progress Report 200 (Nestle, 2016).

Social sustainable practices are also important to Nestle to help foster safe working environments for their employees and ensuring labor laws are in place to help protect from business changes. Research and innovation is important to Nestle especially sustaining resources through audits and making sure that employees are trained to keep company practices.

Colton:

Nestlé uses some of the best technology out there today to in order to enhance water and energy usage so it does not have a negative impact on the greenhouse gas emissions. Nestlé has set goals that are achievable, this would include a 25% reduction in energy expenditure per merchandise class. In their factories, see a 10% reduction in waste disposal.

Nestlé has a climate change leadership. With this leadership, their goals are to reduce the GHG emissions my 35% which is a great improvement from 2005. All of their freezers will use natural gases verse using pollutants. All of Nestlé’s trucks will use natural gases instead of pollutants. When it comes to Nestlé’s packaging, their goal by 2017 is to use less than hundred thousand of material. Nestlé’s product impact on the environment in multiple hotspots will be addressed or updated as they are detected. They will also broaden their range with their databases with regard to their agricultural material that are raw.

By the end of 2016, Nestlé would like to have information about fact-based environmental addressed issues open to the buyers in all countries there is a Nestlé factory. Nestlé’s overall natural capital is to import water in order to improve the surrounding areas where there are factories. Based on their 12 priority categories or raw material, they would like to see a 30% in volume upgrade in order to meet their goals.

Robert

With the amount of processed food Nestle produces there are large amounts of waste and possible environmental contamination associated with the process. The push for cleaner and environmental friendly facilities became mainstream during the 1970’s with the development of regulations set on pollution. With these new regulations sustainability came to the forefront of the food processing business (Soyka, 2012). With Nestle as one of the leading companies in food there needed to be a cultural change within the organization on global sustainability. At this day in time sustainability is one of the three corporate company objectives each facility must align too.

Nestle has facilities that span the globe and their corporate facility in Switzerland cascades company objectives on the sustainability of the global environment to change the processes of the facility’s internal environments. Each facility has three strategic objectives for safety, quality, and sustainability that align with the organizations corporates objectives. The corporate office challenges all of the facilities by region to reduce the amount of waste, electricity, and water usage by a percentage. Managers and leaders are challenged with setting Key Performance Indicators (KPI)s that are set to drive actions that will lead to the completion of the plants objectives. One of the KPI’s is the reduction of processed waste associated with producing the product. This process is called Nestle Continuous Excellence (NCE) and is the driving force to continuous improvements. This process in its inception is a huge cultural change that many other organizations are not accustom too. When new companies are bought by Nestle they go through a process that incorporates the NCE process to their facility. As the culture changes in the people the sustainability factors increase with the introduction of lean manufacturing and waste control.

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Reference

Nestle. (2016). Retrieved from http://www.nestle.com/csv/environmental-sustainability

Peter A. Soyka (2012) Creating a Sustainable Organization: Approaches to Enhancing Corporate Value

Through Sustainability https://phoenix.vitalsource.com/books/9781323317488/id/fm3