Environmental Values
Hormel Foods is firmly committed to our environmental values. To this end, we have established an ongoing packaging reduction project with our brands to identify ways to reduce the amount of packaging used on our products.
Hormel uses more than 60,000 different materials to package and produce our products. About 80 percent of our product packaging is recyclable and/or made from recycled materials.
To learn more about our commitment to the environment and being a responsible company, please read our 2009 Hormel Foods Corporate Responsibility Report.
Environmental Goals
Hormel Foods established companywide goals for air emissions, water, solid waste and energy in the company's 41 U.S. manufacturing facilities.
- Energy Use Conservation: Reduce energy use at our U.S. manufacturing facilities by 2 percent per year for five years using fiscal 2006 as a benchmark.
- Water Use Reduction: Reduce water consumption at our U.S. manufacturing facilities by 2 percent per year for five years using fiscal year 2006 as a benchmark.
- Solid Waste Recycling: Increase recycyling to 50 percent of total waste by November 2011 using fiscal year 2006 as a benchmark.
- Solid Waste Minimization: Reduce solid waste to landfills by 2 percent per year through 2011 using 2006 as a benchmark.
- Air Emissions: Reduce greenhouse gases at our U.S. manufacturing facility by 2 percent per year annualized for production for five years using fiscal year 2009 as a benchmark.
- Packaging Minimization: Reduce product packaging by 3 million pounds annually from 2006 to 2011.