CooperVision‘s work on sustainability has been recognised with multiple awards.
The company’s manufacturing facility in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, recently received top honours at the 15th annual Puerto Rico Sustainability Best Practices, Health and Safety Summit.
The Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association recognised CooperVision’s work at the site with six awards for its programs and practices relating to its sustainability and occupational health and safety commitments.
The company won the Platinum Recycling Award, which is presented to an organisation exemplifying best practice standards in alternate energy and sustainability by achieving greater than 90% recycling rates.
It also earned Sustainability Gold for the site’s excellence in reducing the environmental footprint and contributing to sustainable development in Puerto Rico.
There was more recognition for its Combined Heat and Power Plant project, which captures and reuses excess heat and avoids distribution losses; the Waste in Minimization Award; an honourable mention for its LEED Certification; and the President’s Award, given to companies who exemplify excellence in workplace safety.
“Operating more sustainably to improve the well-being of People + Planet is a core value of CooperVision,” said chief operations officer Rolando Torres.
“These awards are a testament to our ongoing commitment to promoting and supporting environmentally stable practices that benefit employee wellness, health, safety, and productivity.”
He said that, as with all its environmental, health and safety advancements, CooperVision’s operations team would disseminate best practices to its other production sites around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Hungary.
In 2021, CooperVision partnered with Plastic Bank to fund the collection and recycling of ocean-bound plastic equivalent to the weight of plastic used across a range of its participating soft contact lenses, including the lens, blister and packaging components sold and distributed across 27 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
To date, the effort has prevented the equivalent of more than 305 million plastic bottles from entering the oceans.
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