CVS Health’s ESG Report provides a detailed overview of CVS’ goals, efforts and progress under its four key pillars – Healthy Planet, Healthy People, Healthy Business and Healthy Community. On the heels of its release, the company has announced a collaboration with World Wildlife Fund and the organization’s activation hub, ReSource: Plastic, to further its sustainability strategy by focusing on reducing plastic waste and increasing the sustainability of its packaging materials. CVS Health says it recognizes as a company that the health of our planet and the health of all people are inextricably linked, and as a Principal Retail Member, it will continue delivering on its Healthy 2030 goals while helping to solve the plastic pollution crisis.
CVS Health’s goals to create a healthier and more sustainable world include the following
- Ensure all packaging for Store Brands products is 100% reusable, recyclable, compostable, is or can be returned for proper disposal at the end of life by 2030.
- Reduce plastic use in operations by 50% by 2030.
- Reduce single-use virgin plastic in Store Brand packaging by 50% by 2030.
- Ensure all Store Brand paper-based packaging is from recycled or certified sustainably sourced content by 2025.
- Define a list of packaging to be designated as problematic or unnecessary by 2023 and take measures to eliminate them by 2030.
