Cargill collaborates with farmers, food makers and industrial customers to bring new ideas to the table.

Environmental sustainability

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Pioneering new businesses

Another way Cargill shows leadership in environmental practices is by pioneering profitable businesses and products that make use of renewable raw materials.

Going green is not an event or a response to pressures of the time for Cargill. Rather, it’s the way we’ve done business for generations because we recognize that food and feed depend on clean water, healthy soil, clean air and sunlight.

Compliance is the foundation for our environmental efforts. However, our efforts to assure compliance have helped us develop the know-how to create solutions that go “beyond compliance” and turn problems into opportunities.

Our list of innovative, new environmental products and solutions is extensive.  Explore some of them in this section.

Noteworthy

Woman holding plant in test tubeNatureWorks made headlines when Wal-Mart pledged to replace 114 million conventional plastic food containers with our polymer, representing a reduction of 11 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Nature-based solutions

Cargill. Industrial Oils and Lubricants.Oxi-Cure® low VOC oils are specially designed to help paint and coatings manufacturers achieve low VOC levels in their coating formulations.

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