PepsiCo is a world leader in convenient snacks, foods and beverages with revenues of more than $39 billion and over 185,000 employees.

Mission Statement

“We believe our financial success – Performance – must go hand-in-hand with our social and environmental responsibilities – Purpose. We bring that Purpose to every aspect of our business.”

http://www.pepsico.com/Purpose/Environmental-Sustainability.html

Environmental Efforts/Products

• SunChips, Frito-Lay’s popular line of multigrain snacks, announced today that in 2010 it will introduce the first fully compostable snack chip bag made from plant-based materials.
• Launched the food industry’s first Carbon Reduction Label with the Carbon Trust on Walkers Crisps
• Improved water intensity ratio across all of our operations
• Committed more than $16 million to organizations working to bring safe water to developing countries
• Incorporated consideration of environmental sustainability issues and opportunities as part of every capital expenditure evaluation for projects greater
• Conserved nearly 5 billion liters of water and nearly 500 million kilowatt hours of energy worldwide in 2007 as compared to 2006.
• Set corporation-wide goals to reduce water consumption by 20% per unit of production by the year 2015.
• Launched global sustainable packaging policy.
• Reduced PET bottles, paperboard, and corrugated materials by more than 20 million pounds.
• Incorporated consideration of environmental sustainability issues and opportunities as part of every capital expenditure evaluation for projects greater than $5 million
• Saved nearly 1.5 billion gallons of water worldwide in 2007 compared to 2006
• Offset the total purchased electricity used by all PepsiCo US-based facilities by purchasing renewable energy credits
• Honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with 2007 and 2008 Energy Star Partner of the Year awards for energy conservation