Sustainability / Corporate Citizenship Pages
As a guest, it is easy to make smart environmental choices when you dine at a Sodexo café. We know today's college students want to do the right thing for the planet and we also understand you lead busy lives, so your Sodexo chefs and managers do a lot of the work for you behind the scenes!
From purchasing local seasonal produce whenever possible to reducing inorganic and organic waste, your campus team is dedicated to providing you with an exceptional dining experience that is good for you and good for the planet.
This commitment was formalized with Sodexo's Better Tomorrow Plan. The Better Tomorrow Plan includes 14 commitments for a brighter future by focusing on three key priorities: health, community and planet. Learn more about the Better Tomorrow Commitments.
While your Sodexo team works hard behind the scenes, they also count on student engagement and enthusiasm to spread the word about what you're doing together on your campus. We encourage you to work with your local Sodexo management team to continue to innovate and improve sustainability efforts in your community.
If you have additional comments or questions, please contact us. We would love to hear from you.
Quick Links
Social Responsibility
FOOD WASTE – DON’T BE TRASHY!
Join the Sodexo fight against food waste. Stopping food waste is one of the quickest ways to curb climate change. Think about it. Americans throw out 25 percent of the food they prepare – that’s a quarter of your dinner plate or two slices from a whole pizza. Then what? The waste ends up in a landfill where it creates lots of damage. No, it doesn't just biodegrade as you might think. Food waste creates methane gas, which is at least 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Methane wrecks the ozone layer and heats up the planet. You can stop it today! Check out the web site below for lots of interesting facts about food waste and ways to stop it.
 Sodexo signs Fair Food agreement
with CIW!
Big Three food service industry leaders now squarely behind growing movement for Fair Food!...
Saying, "Sodexo is committed to protecting and upholding the rights of all workers, whether employed directly by us or by our business partners and suppliers,” Arlin Wasserman, Sodexo vice president for sustainability and corporate social responsibility, announced today that his company has signed an agreement to work with the CIW to improve wages and working conditions in the fields of its Florida tomato suppliers.
Speaking on behalf of the CIW, Lucas Benitez added:
“We are happy to be working with an industry leader like Sodexo to advance fundamental human rights in Florida’s fields. Social responsibility takes a genuine, sustained engagement with workers and growers on the ground, and a determination to support, with increased business, those growers who agree to comply with the highest standards.”
“Together with Sodexo and our other partners, we are building a system of real accountability, with tangible consequences for growers who fail to protect farm workers’ basic rights,” continued Benitez. “It is our belief that such accountability, with worker input, will be the foundation for lasting improvements in the industry.” |
Sodexo Servathon
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Here is some great information on how it all began and how you can
do your part to participate in the celebration of Earth Day!
Also we're supporting the PBJ Campaign for Earth Day!
PB&J + Sodexo x 10 Million People = Awesome Earth Day
On Friday we posted about all the really amazing things we’ve got going on for Earth Day, and since then we’ve got even more information to share. Sodexo will be encouraging all of the 10 million people it serves on a daily basis to eat a plant-based meal for Earth Day on Thursday. We took our own per-lunch numbers and multiplied them all by 10 million for some pretty mind-blowing stats. We’re looking at about the potential of about 12,400 tons of CO2-equivalent emissions, about 1.3 billion gallons of water, and 5,500 acres of land saved. Needless to say we’re thrilled to have a partner with this kind of vision and reach showing people an incredibly easy and fun way to make a difference this Earth Day.
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"LEFTOVERS WITH LOVE"
The Voices for Justice student group on the Rockhurst campus has partnered with Sodexo in a effort to provide
leftover food from the Cafeteria to be packaged up by student volunteers and delivered to the homeless shelters in our community.
It has been quite a successful and rewarding venture for both Sodexo and the students participating in the program.
While helping to give back to the community the students may also
earn service hours. You may read more about the project in an article featured in the Rockhurst Magazine by clicking on the link below.
Sodexo's mission is to fight hunger and this has been a great way to fulfill that mission by beginning in our own community!
Students Provide Leftovers with Love
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