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SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES

What are we doing? 

We give 1% of our sales back to the environment – funding nonprofit organizations through 1% for the Planet.

What nonprofit partner are we supporting?

We are supporting the Plastic Credit Exchange. This organization supports female entrepreneurs in South East Asia to be leaders, and empower their community to create an income from collecting plastic waste, stopping the plastic from entering waterways and the environment at large. The waste is then reused, recycled, or turned into fuel.

  • They have diverted 31,000,000kg of plastic from entering the environment
  • Invested over $2,000,000 USD to develop a plastic waste circular economy
  • Reduced 52,000 tonnes of carbon from the replacement of coal

For EVERY jar of Justo’s you purchase, the equivalent of 6 single-use plastic containers are removed from the environment.

Why do we do it?

Businesses, governments, and individuals each hold responsibility for enacting change. We believe that as a business, we need to provide customers with an option to enact change with the goods they purchase.

How have we shifted our focus?

When Justo’s was founded, our main sustainability initiative was our closed-loop glass jar packaging system. We have successfully collected, sanitized, and reused over 13,000 jars since the inception of the program.

As our reach grows across Canada, we have begun to understand the complications, and difficulties of facilitating this return program at a larger scale. In addition, we have realized that the environmental impact of collecting and sanitizing jars at scale counterbalances the benefits.

Moving forward, we will be prioritizing a more holistic approach to sustainability. Focusing on more than just a single initiative while still implementing our closed-loop packaging system where we can in our local community.

Our goals:

We are striving to be carbon neutral and plastic negative by the end of 2023. 
 
Read more about our sustainable development goals here

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