Creating Shared Value with Nestlé Corporate Social Responsibility

Reducing waste that goes to landfill is good business–and improves your brand image. Learn how Nestlé is working toward Zero Landfill in its operations and how you can, too.

We are committed to supply chain excellence with the Nestlé coffee plan. From distributing millions of plantlets, to working with rural farmers, we offer support to our international partners.

Respecting our planet by bringing in new farming techniques that protect and conserve natural resources – and helps you too – by plugging you into a pipeline of NESCAFÉ coffees.

Nestlé pledges to transform all of its sites worldwide to zero-waste-to-landfill facilities by 2020. As of 2017, 47 of 77 facilities in the U.S. are zero-landfill. This includes the Minor’s factory in Cleveland, Ohio. It produces flavorful bases and sauces, while maintaining socially responsible operations.

The cocoa supply chain has many environmental and social challenges. Since Nestlé buys around 414,000 tons of cocoa annually, it developed the Nestlé Cocoa Plan. The approach helps improve the lives of cocoa farmers and the quality of their products, while also assuring a sustainable cocoa supply for products like Nestlé Hot Cocoa.

The world needs a plan to help coffee farmers, their communities and our planet – and NESCAFÉ has one. We call it Grown Respectfully. NESCAFÉ is leading the biggest, most ambitious coffee sustainability program in the world. Our ambition is for all our coffee to taste fresh and be Responsibly Sourced.

Through the Nestlé Cocoa Plan, we rely on more than 5 million rural farmers to supply the raw materials needed for our products. Responsible sourcing is an important investment in the future of Nestlé as well as the producers and suppliers we depend on.