Sustainability Strategy - Case Studies

Frito-Lay is an American subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures snack foods and are pursuing sustainability by harnessing renewable energy, sustainably sourcing ingredients, and implementing sustainable farming practices.

Frito-Lay was looking to improve the recyclability of their snack food packaging.

Clean researched a variety of end-of-life (EOL) options to significantly decrease the amount of their chip packaging going to landfill. The approach was to identify key partnerships in U.S. regions to test a closed loop system. Some research challenges included aligning timing towards legislation, how far a program can reach across the country, an the integrity of the material stream.

Frito-Lay took our research and began to roll out partnerships with regional EOL facilities, successfully announcing their compostable packaging line at Coachella in April 2022. Read more about the compostable packaging experiment here!

Cisco Systems, Inc. (Cisco) designs and manufactures networking hardware, software, and other products and services. Cisco's holistic approach to environmental sustainability includes how they operate their business, engage with suppliers, and help customers and communities to reduce their environmental impacts.

Cisco was looking for a firm to provide support conducting a guided workshop to cultivate and encourage employee engagement and target setting around specific supply chain sustainability issues.

Clean Agency built a plan and designed a workshop in support of Cisco’s supply chain goals, to increase transparency and promote real time continuous improvement. 

The workshop enabled employees to comprehend and confront the depth of relevant sustainability issues and set realistic targets to achieve each year. Cisco committed to modeling the successful pilot workshop is across the globe in their various divisions to promote and incorporate a culture of sustainability.

Caesars Entertainment is a global leader in hospitality and gaming that operates more than 50 hotel and casino properties. They are committed to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), with continuous dedication to enhancing economic development, uplifting the well-being of team members and families, and making positive contributions to the broader community and society. 

Caesar's was looking for a firm with diverse experience in sustainability strategy, sourcing, and reporting to tackle multiple sustainability projects.

Clean worked with Caesars for over 4 years, identifying global sustainable fish sourcing, achieving carbon reduction around an LED lighting program, minimizing supply chain impacts, and supporting suppliers around the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).

Caesars' corporate structure improved with the help of the various sustainability initiatives implemented and they continue to improve their global environmental impacts, and submit yearly 

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports. Caesars included Clean in their women minority certified program (WBENC).

“Clean Agency leveraged their expertise to help us create an LCA tool fit for our business and desired outcomes.” – Hana Kajimura, Sustainability Manager, Allbirds

"At Nécessaire we are in business to make a positive environmental impact everywhere we can. Clean Agency has been an amazing partner in this effort. Seri and her team bring industry-leading knowledge to our ongoing impact efforts spanning climate, giving and recycling. In fact, we dont think about Clean Agency as an external partner - we think about them as an extension of our team. They will be with us for a long time." – Randi Christiansen, Co-Founder / CEO, Nécessaire

"The tools Seri and her team provided our company helped us navigate one of the worst periods for selling luxury products/services in history! I highly recommend Seri and Clean Agency for anyone concerned with driving business and creating revenues." - Erin Fleming, Director, Gia

“To me, the value of CLEAN over other consultants is that they deliver the technical expertise, but also in combination with a business perspective, working to identify business opportunities through marketing collaboration. And they are able to work in a way that is collaborative, to pull people along and build internal momentum for sustainability. It’s really the combination of the educational value, building literacy, and momentum, in addition to the actual work that they produce, that have provided a value to our business.” – Mike Desso, Director Safety, Health and Environment, Nestlé USA

“Clean Agency created an amazing presentation for us in a very short amount of time. Our goal was nothing short of revolutionizing the toy industry – creating new products and merchandising that have more impact with less packaging. The level of new thinking and quality execution exceeded my expectations. I can honestly say it was the best presentation we’ve made to this major retailer. The bar has been set very high by Clean Agency.” – Len Mazocco, Senior Vice President Creative, Global Toys, Disney Consumer Product

To the Clean Agency Team:    

 "Thank you for bringing your CA Sustainability perspective to our Global P&G group. It was a rigorous and eye-opening conversation and a great week for the team overall. You got tremendous kudos from the P&G team…so excited by the depth of conversation and your team's willingness to be challenged and respond with strong, informed thoughts...Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. One from the planet, one for our collective Chase family and the last and deepest from me." – Chris Lowrey, CEO & Chief Strategist, Chase Design Group