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CooperVision launches website to highlight sustainability efforts
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CooperVision launched a website to highlight the company’s sustainability efforts.
The site includes stories on several of the company’s environmental initiatives: saving water, conserving energy, recycling, and empowering people and communities around the world.
“Our goal is simple: Do better every day. Attaining that comes from the enduring drive of our people and partners worldwide to minimize our environmental impact,” Fernando Torre, chief operations officer at CooperVision, said in a company press release. “Everyone benefits – our employees, our customers, our business and our planet. By sharing our progress, we hope that others are inspired to consider how their efforts might make an even greater impact.”
The site reports on many of the achievements and efforts being made by the company’s manufacturing and distribution facilities. According to the company, these measures include: 99% percent of plastics used in production, representing tens of millions of pounds, are repurposed into new products such as traffic cones and molded chairs; saving millions of gallons of water annually by manufacturing process water in plant cooling towers; incorporating natural light and high-efficiency lighting systems into new and retrofitted buildings; developing site plans that promote mass transportation use, with up to 70% participation by employees at sites in Hungary and Cost Rica; and sharing knowledge with fellow corporations, civic organizations, and governments, garnering some of the highest environmental honors among Puerto Rico-based manufacturers.
CooperVision plans to update its site, coopervision.com/sustainability, as environmental initiatives continue.