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commitmenttocsr
Protecting and sustaining the environment
and our communities are at the heart of our
corporate social responsibility (CSR) program.
Reducing Our Environmental Footprint
Our efforts to minimize our company’s energy
use and crush costs are ongoing, from
upgrading our DSD fleet with more fuel-
efficient vehicles to installing energy-efficient
lighting to replacing a significant number of
our coolers and venders with Energy Star-
rated equipment.
In the vast majority of our plants, air rinsers
are conserving 10,000 gallons of water per
line per day. Product blending systems are
minimizing liquid losses, and new water
filtration systems are allowing us to conserve
more. To reduce solid waste, lightweighting
initiatives are underway across our portfolio,
including shorter closures for our PET bottles
that have resulted in approximately 10 percent
less plastic by weight for certain packages.
Partnerships that Encourage Active
Lifestyles and Improve
Our Communities
At DPS, we advocate a calories-in/calories-
out message that emphasizes personal choice,
education, balanced diets and physical
activity as the keys to healthy behavior. That
philosophy resonates through much of our
community involvement.
In 2009 DPS joined with KaBOOM!,
a national nonprofit, in piloting a signature
program advocating fun, active and healthy
lifestyles in our communities. Leveraging
our proud history of volunteerism, we rallied
employees, customers and community
volunteers to transform vacant lots in
Sacramento, Calif., St. Louis, Mo., and
Mississauga, Ont., Canada, into playgrounds
designed for and by local children. We will
build 10 more playgrounds in 2010 in DPS
cities, including Los Angeles, Houston,
Detroit, Indianapolis and Jacksonville, Fla.
We also demonstrated our commitment to
being a good corporate citizen through our
second-annual United Way campaign, which
included a corporate dollar-for-dollar match.
Early on, President and CEO Larry Young
challenged DPS employees to increase their
contributions by 25 percent and pledged
to get a crew cut if we achieved that stretch
goal. Clearly that was all the motivation
our employees needed, because we beat
last year’s United Way giving amount by
40 percent (and Larry did indeed go under
the clippers!).
Sharing Our Story
Over the past year we’ve made strides in our
corporate sustainability program, establishing
environmental, philanthropic and other goals
and metrics to allow us to track and report
our progress. We plan to release our first
sustainability report in mid-2010.
DR PEPPER SNAPPLE GROUP 2009 ANNUAL REPORT
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commitment to csr
In 2009
we increased
our United Way
contributions
40%
by