September 10, 2008
Burt’s Bees Cuts Water Use By 20%, Electricity 14%
Burt’s Bees released its first CSR report this week. In the first half of 2008, the company reported it has cut its electricity use by 14 percent per sales dollar and reduced manufacturing related water use by more than 20 percent. The company also reported it reduced waste to landfill by over 50 percent in one year.
The company has pledged to cut its U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent per dollar sales from 2006 to 2011.
At a time when “natural” beauty products is becoming an increasingly crowded category, Burt’s Bees and a group of….
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Reader Comments
what about Clorox’s efforts? great that Burts is doing things but their parent company is busy polluting our world.
phil | September 16th, 2008