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Sustainability
We are Colgate-Palmolive: a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. This purpose unites our teams all around the world and energizes our sustainability efforts. As we embark upon a new decade, Colgate is presented with tremendous opportunities and new challenges in the area of sustainability. We begin this new decade with great momentum and a sense of accomplishment as we finish the last year of our 2015 to 2020 sustainability strategy.
We are committed to ensuring the wellbeing of those we serve, building a culture of inclusivity and creating meaningful opportunities for all people to succeed inside and outside Colgate.
Helping Millions Of Homes
We are empowering people to develop healthier habits by choosing sustainable products that improve their lives and homes from oral and personal care to pet nutrition and home care.
Preserving Our Environment
It is important for us to sustain the health of our planet so that the planet can sustain us. We are deeply committed to environmental stewardship, in the form of mitigating climate change, safeguarding clean water, reducing waste, sourcing responsibly, constructing green buildings, and more.
Driving Social Impact
We are committed to ensuring the wellbeing of those we serve, building a culture of inclusivity and creating meaningful opportunities for all people to succeed inside and outside Colgate.
Helping Millions Of Homes
We are empowering people to develop healthier habits by choosing sustainable products that improve their lives and homes from oral and personal care to pet nutrition and home care.
Preserving Our Environment
It is important for us to sustain the health of our planet so that the planet can sustain us. We are deeply committed to environmental stewardship, in the form of mitigating climate change, safeguarding clean water, reducing waste, sourcing responsibly, constructing green buildings, and more.
Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures®
We have reached more than 1.2 billion children and their families across 80 countries with free dental screenings and oral health education.
Hill’s Food, Shelter & Love™
Each year, the Company provides pet food with a retail value of more than $295 million and helps nearly 11 million dogs and cats find their forever home.
Employee Health and Wellness
Employees participate in an annual Live Better Global Healthy Activity Challenge in which 26 million minutes of healthy activity are logged each year.
Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures®
We have reached more than 1.2 billion children and their families across 80 countries with free dental screenings and oral health education.
Hill’s Food, Shelter & Love™
Each year, the Company provides pet food with a retail value of more than $295 million and helps nearly 11 million dogs and cats find their forever home.
Employee Health and Wellness
Employees participate in an annual Live Better Global Healthy Activity Challenge in which 26 million minutes of healthy activity are logged each year.
Recyclable Toothpaste Tubes
Colgate was the first company to develop a recyclable toothpaste tube. We are freely sharing this technology to reduce waste generated from the billions of toothpaste tubes discarded each year.
Recycling Program
Our partnership with TerraCycle® supports a free recycling program to divert oral care product packaging from landfills. We engage local communities and schools to participate, with a chance to win playground equipment made from recycled materials.
Design Sustainable Products
Colgate has made a commitment to 100% recyclability of all packaging. As of year-end 2019, approximately 99% of our personal care, home care, and pet nutrition packaging by weight is recyclable.
Recyclable Toothpaste Tubes
Colgate was the first company to develop a recyclable toothpaste tube. We are freely sharing this technology to reduce waste generated from the billions of toothpaste tubes discarded each year.
Recycling Program
Our partnership with TerraCycle® supports a free recycling program to divert oral care product packaging from landfills. We engage local communities and schools to participate, with a chance to win playground equipment made from recycled materials.
Design Sustainable Products
Colgate has made a commitment to 100% recyclability of all packaging. As of year-end 2019, approximately 99% of our personal care, home care, and pet nutrition packaging by weight is recyclable.
Make Every Drop of Water Count
We help to provide availability and accessibility of water through our Water Awareness of Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program and other initiatives, such as water conservation (Turn off the Tap) and rainwater harvesting.
Zero Waste Certification
With 30% of our facilities TRUE Zero Waste certified, we have more TRUE Zero Waste certified projects on more continents than any other company.
Sustainable Buildings
To date,19 of our facilities around the world have achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification.
Make Every Drop of Water Count
We help to provide availability and accessibility of water through our Water Awareness of Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program and other initiatives, such as water conservation (Turn off the Tap) and rainwater harvesting.
Zero Waste Certification
With 30% of our facilities TRUE Zero Waste certified, we have more TRUE Zero Waste certified projects on more continents than any other company.
Sustainable Buildings
To date,19 of our facilities around the world have achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification.
