The Climate Pledge signatories are focused on reducing waste, optimizing resource use, and emissions reduction. By creating more sustainable materials, production systems, and consumption habits, The Climate Pledge signatories are shepherding us away from a world of single-use norms.
Signatory highlights:
- Amazon: Replaced 95% of the plastic air pillows from delivery packaging in North America with paper filler, working toward full removal by the end of 2024.
- Brooks: Developed the first carbon-neutral shoe in 2021.
- Climate Pledge Arena: Eliminated all single-use plastics for purchase on its concourse and diverted 92% of waste across all operations and arena events in 2023.
- Colgate-Palmolive: Developed the first-recognized recyclable toothpaste tube and shared the technology to scale quickly and help to meet their 2025 target to make all their packaging recyclable.
- Cotopaxi: Used mostly repurposed, recycled or responsible materials for all products.
- Delphis Eco: Redeveloped triggers for spray bottles to be 100% plastic so that they’re 100% recyclable.
- Henkel: Increased the share of recycled plastic in its consumer goods packaging to 19% worldwide, including doubling the recycled content level to 50% for the universal liquid detergents portfolio in Europe.
- Iberdrola: Partnered with FCC Ambito to create EnergyLoop, a company that provides a commercial and scalable solution to recycling wind turbine blades.
- MiiR: Launched its first product with 90% traceable, recycled stainless steel.
- Procter & Gamble: Met 78% of its goal to design 100% of its consumer packaging to be reusable or recyclable.
- Royal Philips: Introduced recycled plastic in baby monitors in 2023, expanded to more models in 2024.
- Sainsbury: Replaced traditional plastic tray packaging across its entire beef mince range with a vacuum-packed alternative, resulting in a 450-tonne annual reduction of plastic waste, a significant step towards its goal of halving plastic packaging in its owned brand products by 2025.
- Simba Sleep: Reduced waste to landfill by refurbishing mattresses, offering recycling for old mattresses, and providing a take-back recycling service for mattresses.
- Sony: Reduced virgin oil-based plastic used per product by approximately 16.1% in fiscal year 2023 compared to fiscal year 2018.
- Stella McCartney: Collaborated with material innovators on lower-impact and vegan alternatives, whilst moving to an entirely circular production system.
- The Pallet Loop: Developed a system for reusing pallets to significantly reduce single-use pallets.
- Unilever: Committed to using 25% recycled content in packaging, and collecting and processing more plastic than it sold by 2025.
- Verizon: Reused or reduced approximately 47 million pounds of e-waste, including 1.3 million pounds of plastic and 1.9 million pounds of lead-acid batteries in 2023.
