Webinars

Perhaps you have been told to investigate carbon neutrality and how your business can become certified, or you need to know more about carbon neutrality before taking any further steps. No matter your situation, having complete comprehension of carbon neutral certification and all of its facets is important. Join PSC, Climate Neutral and Native Energy to learn what carbon neutral certification means, how to achieve it, and more.

Packaging is one of the biggest issues for sustainability in the pet industry. On August 23 in Las Vegas, five leading pet food brands (Canidae, Earth Animal, Instinct, Petcurean, and Primal Pet Foods) publicly signed-on to Pet Sustainability Coalition’s Packaging Pledge. The PSC Packaging Pledge is a new program that helps companies meet voluntary, public, and time-bound sustainable packaging commitments. It is in direct alignment with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, thereby increasing participation from the pet industry to move toward recyclable, reusable, or compostable packaging by the year 2025. Join us and our guest speakers (Caitlyn Dudas, Co-Founder and Executive Director of PSC; Caroline James, Director of Sustainability of Atlantic Packaging) to learn about the benefits, tools, and more associated with the pledge.

The Pet Sustainability Coalition has released the pet industry’s first foundational model for sustainable ingredient evaluation. The model proposes 4 factors including an ingredient’s environmental and social impact as well as its animal welfare and nutritional performance.

Seafood is an important source of protein globally, and a common ingredient in many pet food and treats. By sourcing seafood sustainably, the pet industry can support thriving global communities, advance food security, and help to regenerate healthy marine ecosystems.

Join PSC and The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), a non-profit organization that aims to set standards for sustainable fishing, to learn how the MSC standard aligns with PSC’s Four-Factor Framework for Sustainable Proteins.

92% of the S&P 500 companies published a sustainability report in 2020, and in some countries, it’s mandatory for corporations to publish these reports annually. Although not yet required of companies based in the United States, some predict it will be in the not-so-distant future. So, what does this mean for the pet industry? Join PSC and our member panelists in this upcoming webinar where we will provide an overview of Sustainability Reporting trends, best practices, and experiences. Learn the differences between the alphabet soup of sustainability reporting (GRI, SASB, CDP, TCFP, SDGs, and more), as well as what you need to put together your first and subsequent sustainability reports. Then, hear from PSC member companies Mondi, Petcurean, and Petco on how they report on sustainability, what kind of reports they use, who manages their reporting and how much resources does it take, and more.

Earth Animal, the trusted choice in award-winning, health improving veterinary formulated products, Petfood Experts, a whole sale distributor serving 4500 independently owned retailers and the Pet Sustainability Coalition (PSC), a nonprofit that advances business through environmental and social practices, announces Flex Forward – a 2020 return-to-retail packaging pilot program aimed at reducing landfill waste and delivering sustainable packaging solutions to the pet industry.

More and more transportation companies offer a way to balance out your pollution by investing in projects that reduce emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.  What if we could do the same for plastic?  While we all work to reduce the amount of plastic in our products and packaging, is there a way to offset the plastic we haven’t been able, or it doesn’t make sense to eliminate?

Tune into this recording to learn from the PSC team how the production of proteins has one of the largest environmental impacts in the pet industry. In 2018, PSC set a goal to provide leadership, tools and guidance for the pet industry to address our environmental impact related to protein use.