DELIVERY HERO In conversation with the company ’ s Senior Director of Sustainability , CSR and Safety , Jeff Oatham , he explains the initiatives the company will implement and divulges the team ’ s crucial role in Delivery Hero ’ s success .
Initiatives for a sustainable ecosystem As with many sustainability initiatives , innovation is critical both for meeting the needs of consumers — with generations becoming increasingly more conscious of their purchasing habits — and to reduce the environmental impact of the overall business and supply chain .
Delivery Hero launched a Sustainable Packaging Programme that will benefit its restaurant partners for a few reasons ; they will have access to biodegradable packaging , increase appeal to sustainability-conscious consumers , and its partners will be able to source the solution through their established partnership . This is just one of the many ways in which the company is reducing its negative global impact .
“ For us , it is about looking , understanding our climate footprint and impact , and then figuring out how we can make the biggest difference on that ?” Oatham says . “ Our longterm agenda is to build a company we can be proud of , and we believe we can do that by addressing and having a material impact on climate change .”
“ We ' ve been rolling out carbon measurements on a regional basis over the course of the last three years . This spring we ’ ll have our first kind of global footprint and that ' s across Scope one , two , and three . It ' s our entire emissions footprint ,” Oatham explains .
“ We know from our data measurement that the biggest drivers of our footprint are packaging and the vehicle emissions during delivery ,” he says .
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