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Wheatsville Joins Climate Collaborative to Help Reverse Climate Change

Wheatsville Food Co-op has been a community leader in environmental stewardship since opening in 1976. As a neighborhood grocery we’ve worked hard to divert and recapture recyclable resources from the waste stream. This Earth Day we’re proud to announce that we’ve joined the Climate Collaborative along with co-ops across the country, National Co+op Grocers, and may other natural foods brands.

The Climate Collaborative is a project of OSC2 and Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA) to catalyze bold climate action among natural products companies. The Climate Collaborative brings manufacturers, retailers, brokers, distributors, and suppliers together to build existing climate solutions to scale and to find innovative, new ways to help reverse climate change.

Companies in the industry have made over 400 commitments to climate action to date—to integrate carbon farming into their supply chains, switch to renewable power, reduce the climate impacts of their packaging, remove deforestation from their supply chains, engage on climate policy, and more. These commitments demonstrate that acting on climate is an urgent priority for the natural products industry and highlights the growing trend of corporate leadership on climate change.

Monthly, we recycle 10 tons of cardboard at S. Lamar and 8 tons at Guadalupe. Compostable material recycling = 14 tons / month between both stores and recycling of plastic, glass, and paper = 7 tons per month. In addition, almost 2 tons of fresh edible food is being directed to fresh food banks within our community through Save the Food Coalition. All total, we are redirecting 80,000 POUNDS of materials out of the waste stream every single month.


While recycling is a big part of overall sustainability, we are also a Green Energy Partner. Just this past month, the EPA once again named our co-op among the 2018 Top 30 Retail Partners in its Green Power Partner program which uses the money we pay for utilities to build wind farms and help Austin reach its goal of goal of 55% renewable energy use by 2025.

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