Ben and Jerry's Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

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Ben & Jerry’s presents itself as a company with a social mission alongside its business goals. Its stated mission is to make the best product it can, be economically sustainable, and create positive social change, including advancing models of economic justice. The company says its social mission seeks to meet human needs and eliminate injustices in local, national and international communities, and it has long supported nonviolent initiatives that seek to achieve peace. It was certified as a B Corporation in September 2012 and has reported strong scores in governance, workers, community and environment.

About Ben and Jerry’s

Status
Unverified

Website
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Employees
100 - 500

Country
United States

Ben and Jerry’s Sustainability Actions

Certified B Corporation

Certified Since September 2012. Ben & Jerry’s overall mission is to make the best product they can, be economically sustainable, and at the same time, create positive social change – specifically to advance new models of economic justice that are both sustainable and replicable.

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Used unbleached paperboard

The “eco-pint” was unveiled in February 1999 after several years of development. By the end of that year, one-third of Ben & Jerry’s packaging was made out of unbleached paperboard. The company had gone forward with its original plan despite the US government’s approval of a less-polluting alternative in 1998.

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Joined Ceres principles

Ben & Jerry’s had been a corporate leader in environmental impact reduction in 1992, when it signed the Ceres principles, and again in 1994, when it added a label certifying that it did not use ingredients produced with bovine growth hormone.

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Added bovine growth hormone label

In 1994, it added a label certifying that it did not use ingredients produced with bovine growth hormone.

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Worked on dairy runoff

In 1999, Ben & Jerry’s joined with a grain company, experts at Cornell University and the University of Vermont, its main dairy supplier (the St Albans co-op), and two pilot farms to look for ways to reduce runoff in small, practical ways.

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Ben and Jerry’s Sustainability Commitments

1998

Open five PartnerShops

It had set a goal of opening five new PartnerShops, which was its term for ice cream stores that were operated by not-for-profit groups as job training programmes, in 1998.