Stolog5 Are businesses trying to help to the environment?

The answer to this question is yes or at least one company is. The company P&G are making a step in helping the environment. I found the article Protor and Gamble Makes New Major Commitment to Sustainability at http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/09/proctor-gamble-green-commitment.php?campaign=th_rss.

This article is very short but has a lot of information in it. It talks about how the company P&G is the world's largest comsumer company and now it has a new commitment to sustainability. They have three main goals to do this, which are: powering its plants with 100 percent renewable energy, using 100 percent renewable or recycled materials for all products and packaging, and cutting down on packaging materials. With P&G taking this bold step other companies may take on this feat as well. This huge change is going to be a big step so P&G will be putting out yearly progess reports. The first major benchmark will be coming out in 2020. The article then goes on to mention four product: Pringles, Tide, PUR, and Olay, that will be in better packaging. Along with having their first benchmark out by 2020 they also want to replace 25 percent of petroleum-based materials with renewable materials, reasulting in a reduction of 20 percent in packaging. That isn't the only thing P&G wants accomplished by 2020, they also want to power its plants with 30 percent renewable energy and cut back on truch transportation by 20 percent. Finally the article goes on to say that P&G is acting to the new world of business which has increased resource competition and climate change concerns. With making these changes P&G can market to consumers and investers that it is among the greenest companies. Another thing this is doing for P&G is lowering future expenses by limiting fuel and packaging expenses.

In this article they also leave a link to a webpage that shows the full plans for their switch. There are seven catorgies to look at on this page: overview, environmental sustainability, social responsibiliy, product safety, employee engagement, points of view, heritage & recognition, and reports. Each of these talks about steps or actions P&G is taking.

After reading this article I decided to look up videos on P&G sustainablility and found this clip. I found out that P&G has been working on being evironmentally friendly for a while and helping other countires.





I think that this is an amazing idea for P&G to do. They are taking a risk but this risk is going to change the way businesses work in today's society. Other businesses will take this idea to get cosumers but P&G will get the credit for starting it so they are helping themselves in the long run with their business. The bonus to them expanding their business is that they are helping the environment. I think it's awesome that P&G isn't just doing this change for business but they see that the environment is being damged and that it needs to stop.