Food Alliance
Food Alliance certified foods are produced in season by local farmers including green and red peppers, green beans, sweet corn, squash, apples, apple cider and potatoes.

For the past several years, Sodexo has sought to utilize local and regional farmers and producers for procuring in-season products for its operations nationwide, making sustainable goods available to its customers at campuses, schools, health care facilities, and corporate accounts, with units receiving up to 40 percent of their produce from local growers.

In order for farmers to meet Food Alliance standards for production of sustainable items, they must agree not to use genetically modified products, cannot utilize hormones or feed additive antibiotics in livestock production and must continually seek to improve various other management and production practices designed to reduce pesticides, conserve water and protect the soil, operate in a manner that protects adjacent wildlife habits, and offer safe and fair working conditions for their employees.

STOP Hunger
Since 1999, the Sodexo Foundation has been committed to being a driving and creative force that contributes to a hunger-free nation. In order to eliminate hunger that affects 36 million people in the U.S., we must fight its root causes.
Click here to visit the stop hunger website.

Our Manufacturing Partners
Sodexo has been an active member of industry coalitions which encourage legislators, manufacturers and consumers to jointly develop rational, not reactionary, strategies to today's environmental needs. We select our manufacturing partners watchfully. Fort Howard, our largest contracted supplier of paper, napkins, tissue and towels, uses recycled fiber exclusively in the manufacturing process. Mobil Chemical, our primary contracted source for plastic can liners, uses from 30% to 90% recycled materials in their plastic liners.

Sweetheart Cup, Solo Cup, Amoco, Dart and Mobil all use pre-recycled material in the manufacture of foam plates, bowls and food containers. Sodexo will continue to form alliances with business organizations that are ecologically sound and responsible. We will continue to work with consumer organizations, governmental agencies and industry groups to implement new strategies and tactics as they evolve. We will actively participate in the long-range planning process at the local and national levels to ensure that our environment and economy are protected for future generations.

Sustainability on our Campus
Whenever possible, in Academic Year 2008/2009 we will continue to use only biodegradable products for all monthly Residential Dining Events.

In spring 2008 we began a program with Xpressnap Table Top Dispensers at Christman Dining Commons. Using the trademark brown, recycled material napkins, the dispensers afford us an opportunity to communicate with our students (via inserts), while providing a clean, eco-friendly and sanitary product. We will continue with this program in Academic Year 2008/2009.

Also in Spring 2008 we partnered with Ecolab to begin using their new Apex warewashing system at Christman Dining Commons. Designed to decrease costs and environmental impact through optimized efficiency, this automated system tracks the rack-to-guest ratio, graphs the operational efficiency trends over the last six service calls, estimates the monthly total expense in the warewashing process; lists savings generated from maintenance and repair services performed by the Ecolab service associate and itemizes recommendations and their potential impact to further lower total costs.

In addition, the Apex system further supports sustainability initiatives with non-caustic chemistry and 95 percent less packaging material. Apex products come in a compact solid form that significantly reduces transportation shipments compared to bulkier liquid detergents.

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