Level of Plastic Pollution From Nestle

Who doesn’t love Nestles Toll House Cookies? I picked the Nestles company as the business that has experienced some trouble in the public eye due to ethical lapses.

The Nestles company was started in 1866 by Charles Page then the company was taken over by his brother after his death. The company was known as “Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company” in Switzerland. In started a company by Henri Nestle that sold infant foods. These were both successful company and competitors until 1905 when they united. They had the start of the huge conglomeration they have today. Nestles has survived the great depression and even increased its holdings during that time.

Nestles Mission statement is inspired by one of the founders, Henri Nestle that food “for individuals and families… that enable healthier and happier lives.” Nestle has commitments to the health of the future generations by having information on being healthy and having healthier food choices and living healthier and moving more. Nestle has plans for a healthier planet for the future and having a zero impact to the environment. Since the start of the companies that now form Nestles, the vision has been to expand and to excel at business.

Nestles displays their social responsibility in trying to go worldwide with their long term sustainability. Nestles planse to to be using at least 24% recycled plastic by 2021. Nestles also is looking gobaly at going 100% recycled or reusable for it’s packaging.

Nestles has over 2 pages of principal subsidiaries, this ranges from baby food to coffee to bottled water to pizza and pet food, this is not a complete list but if Nestles makes it and another business starts to look successful then Nestles will most likely buy it.

If you do not grow your own food and make your own medicine and clothes then you are buying a product of Nestles. This company may have started in a small town but is now a global contender and has factories and sales in almost every continent.

Nestle is trying to have a circular economy. This means that a company is trying to have a neutral impact on the environment but still doing business and having priorities and the future in mind so that the business has sustainable resources. Nestle has thrived during the depression and recession have been a time of growth throughout the history of Nestles. The hardest times that Nestles had financially, is the time of world wars. The company had trouble getting raw material and shipping of goods. The solution was to go where the war wasn’t and expand in those countries. Nestles realized that the three main areas of future food industry is the “increase in world population, rising standards of living in industrialized countries, and changing social and economic conditions of raw-material-producing countries.” Internally the company has had CEO that have made bad decision and has caused public upset and a recent upset was when the CEO at the time, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, made a comment about water not being a right for everyone.

The sustainability of the company is because of the foresight of the founders and then the men that have been hired to run the company. Which have made a global conglomerate out of a small business.

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