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8 years ago
- The New York Times recently shared one conscious consumer’s concerns about how his online shopping habit impacts the environment. His sentiments are something we’ve all likely experienced. We click, we buy, and like magic - a box shows up. Or two boxes. Or three. It’s an amazing feat of modern commerce, but it also creates very real waste. Whether this makes you feel guilt - or maybe just a little bit frustrated - you’re not alone.
8 years ago
- Today, as the World Health Organization convened emergency talks to address the rapidly spreading Zika virus and placed it in the same category as Ebola, it's important to know the facts. Sealed Air's Diversey Care is well known for its hygiene solutions which prevent the spread of many diseases. Peter Teska, Diversey Care's Infection Prevention Application Expert, reviews the facts of the disease and some key methods for prevention. At Diversey Care, we care about preventing infections, and protecting public health. We track infections globally so that we can always be one step ahead of a potential outbreak.
8 years ago
- Sealed Air Corporation today announced its partnership with Charlotte-based veterans’ organization Patriots Path. As a partner company, Sealed Air is sponsoring classes, donating classroom space for the five-week job skills courses and providing recruitment team members as job coaches.
“The purpose of Patriots Path is to transition veterans from the military into corporate culture through a series of training programs beyond resume building,” said John Tuomala, Executive Director of Talent Acquisition for Sealed Air. “The best compliment we can give Patriots Path is to hire veterans. By sponsoring and donating time as job coaches it allows us to get to know the veterans in the program with the ultimate goal to turn them into employees.”
8 years ago
- CHARLOTTE, NC --- December 16, 2015 – Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE) and its President & CEO today released the following statement in response to the outcomes of the United Nations COP 21 climate change conference.
8 years ago
- Charlotte, NC, November 16, 2015 – Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE) today announced that its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate risks of potential climate change have been recognized by CDP, the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. According to this year’s CDP 2015 Climate Change Report, Sealed Air was named to the Climate Performance Leadership Index (CPLI) A List and also earned a position in CDP’s S&P 500 Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI), for the second consecutive year.
8 years ago
- Double Triumph for Sealed Air at ISSA Innovation AwardsTASKI swingo micro-rider and TASKI Intellibot SWINGOBOT 755 win big in Las Vegas Charlotte, NC, October 26, 2015 – Diversey Care, a division of Sealed Air (NYSE: SEE), has taken home two of the prestigious ISSA Innovation Awards presented at the ISSA/INTERCLEAN® North America exhibition in Las Vegas. The awards recognize groundbreaking products and services in the cleaning and sanitation industry. The winners were the TASKI swingo 2100 micro-rider and TASKI Intellibot SWINGOBOT 755, two machines that represent the present and the future of floor cleaning. Both machines exhibit intelligence by design and have been very well received by the global cleaning industry.
8 years ago
- This blog post also appeared at the US Chamber of Commerce Corporate Citizenship Center BlogThese days, many of us have heard the statistics about the need to feed a growing global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, the 800 million malnourished people in the world, and the substantial amount of food, more than a third, that is wasted in both developed and developing countries. But other than headlines and news stories, what is the connection with the U.S. food consumer?
8 years ago
- Together we think differently, together we stop world hunger
By Karl Deily
The global food supply consistently produces enough food to feed every single person in the world. And yet, nearly 1 billion people are undernourished and another 1 billion are going hungry every year.
Last month, world leaders met at the United Nations to define the sustainable development agenda through 2030. This is important, because there is tremendous power in coming together across 193 countries to discuss what it takes to build a world we can all live and thrive in.
Today on World Food Day, Sustainable Development goal #2—End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture—is especially meaningful.
8 years ago
- Today, Sealed Air, the packaging solutions company that brought you Bubble Wrap®, released its latest sustainability report. The report outlines new goals for 2020, including reducing operations intensity by 25 percent.
8 years ago
- Since our company’s founding, Sealed Air has provided solutions for our customers and solutions for the world. From the start, Bubble Wrap was truly revolutionary both as a product and as a value proposition. It could reduce total packaging cost by using less material, reduce packaging size and weight, and reduce loss from damage. In other words, it promoted sustainability long before it was fashionable.
Today, we have grown far beyond Bubble Wrap. We employ more than 24,000 employees, operate 145 manufacturing facilities, and have 35 packaging and equipment design centers. We generate roughly 7.8 billion dollars of business in more than 175 countries primarily through three divisions.
8 years ago
- Earlier this year, you saw the launch of Sealed Air’s Better Way for Life Plan and 2020 Sustainability Goals. As you would expect, a lot of work was done behind the scenes to set such aggressive commitments. To make sure we weren’t creating a strategy in a vacuum, we collected feedback from suppliers, customers, and non-governmental organizations to gain valuable insights and identify the most material issues to the company and our key stakeholders. The results were Sealed Air’s first materiality assessment and matrix.
We conducted extensive research with both Sealed Air employees and external experts in surveys and interviews. The participation rate and highly engaged feedback from partners reinforced the importance of the work.
8 years ago
- The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) — a technical coalition of leading global beverage companies working to advance environmental sustainability within the beverage sector - has leveraged its expertise to develop a user-friendly tool to help facilities better estimate their “true cost” of water. This interactive tool can help facilities within the beverage industry and beyond better determine direct costs associated with their most water- and resource-intensive processes.
8 years ago
- A recent report from Transparency Market Research revealed that sustainability awareness is driving the demand for paper packaging. Paper is the largest material type in the packaging market and is growing, since it is both economically and environmentally appealing.Volatility in raw material prices, energy costs, and the global economy have significantly affected the global packaging market, motivating companies to develop recyclable and reusable packaging.
8 years ago
- Charlotte, NC, June 17, 2015 – Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE), recently announced its Gold Sponsorship of the Charlotte Chamber’s GreenWorks Committee. Sealed Air, which announced last July it is moving its global headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina, sees this as an ideal opportunity to engage with the Charlotte business community on the topic of sustainability practices in business.
8 years ago
- On the opening afternoon of SB ’15 San Diego, a much-anticipated workshop on reducing food waste — featuring Sally Uren, Chief Executive of Forum for the Future, and Raphael Bemporad, Chief Strategy Officer for BBMG — provided an interactive and enthusiastic forum on the subject, engaging audience members from all sectors for both personal and professional reasons.Bemporad began by reminding everyone that to make lasting change we need a better understanding of the human heart as it relates to sustainability and particularly food.
8 years ago
- Charlotte, N.C., May 27, 2015 /3BL Media/ – Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE), and its partner school, the Alfreton Grange Arts College, have been crowned the Fresher For Longer competition champions. Fresher For Longer, part of the UK’s national Love Food Hate Waste campaign, gave students in 10 secondary schools across England and Wales the chance to tackle food waste in their own school communities while learning the role packaging plays in preventing the problem. After a series of food waste workshops delivered by Global Action Plan, the 195 students designed and implemented their own food waste behavior change programs.
8 years ago
- What does circular economy mean to you? For many companies, the concept of a circular economy has only recently become a priority. For Sealed Air, we have been thriving and innovating in a circular economy business model from the very beginning, as many as sixty years ago. This week I had the honor of participating in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s event on The Circular Economy, and speaking on a panel about Advances in Circular Economy Business Models. At Sealed Air, we tangibly demonstrate our commitment to a circular economy business model at all three levels of our organization, from our operations, to our products, to the societal impact of our work.
9 years ago
- Charlotte, NC, March 13, 2015 – Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE) participated in the recent Global Food Safety Initiative’s (GFSI) conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 3-5. The 2015 conference, which welcomed experts and food service, retail, food and beverage manufacturers from more than 60 countries worldwide, chose the theme “Food Safety: A Shared Responsibility.”
9 years ago
- Charlotte, NC, March 13, 2015 - Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE) participated in the recent Global Food Safety Initiative’s (GFSI) conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 3-5. The 2015 conference, which welcomed experts and food service, retail, food and beverage manufacturers from more than 60 countries worldwide, chose the theme “Food Safety: A Shared Responsibility.”
9 years ago
- The American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) has published a new brochure called Reducing Fresh Food Waste: The Role of Packaging.The free brochure explains that Americans throw away 36 million tons of food each year, worth $162 billion, and says that “one factor accounts for about two-thirds of the problem: spoilage from not being used on time.”It says that better packaging can help alleviate spoilage and other forms of waste and lists all the benefits it offers: