Environmental Compliance
5 STAR Compliance benchmark.
What is >=98% or minus one question?
The Construction department calls this liquid cheap when comparing it to others.
What is water?
5 STAR Waste benchmark.
What is >=80% diversion rate?
This person is the Senior Vice President of the Global Sustainability Department.
Who is Sheri Flies?
This person is the Product Owner of the Environment & Packaging pod.
Who is Bharani Naik?
What does the acronym ESCM stand for?
Environmental Sustainability and Compliance Manager
5 STAR Water benchmark.
This is known as the most cost effective and socially responsible method of waste disposal.
What is donation?
This is Costco's Mission statement.
What is "Provide our members with Quality Goods and Services at the lowest possible prices?
This is the Environment & Packaging pod charter.
What is provide user friendly digital tools to anticipate, track and drive behavioral changes to influence global environmental compliance and sustainability objectives?
The program Costco uses to manage hazardous waste.
What is the bucket program?
These type of ponds are designed to temporarily hold a set amount of water while slowly draining to another location.
What are detention ponds?
This is known as the least effective method of disposal on the food waste hierarchy?
What is landfill/incinerate or send down drain?
These are Costco's Code of Ethics.
What is 1. Obey the Law; 2. Take care of our Members; 3. Take care of our Employees; 4. Respect our Vendors; 5. Reward our Shareholders?
These are the four Environment & Packaging pod products.
5 STAR Dashboard, Environment, Packaging and Forestry
The annual audit conducted by ESCMs.
What is the STAR audit?
The United States of America borders these oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans?
When handling donations, operators follow this rule?
What is the 80/20 rule?
These are the three primary pillars of the Global Sustainability department.
What are People/Communities, Operations and Merchandising?
These two Assistant Vice Presidents are the primary stakeholders of the Environment & Packaging Pod.
Who are Juliann Buron and Tyson Apperson?
This is the primary role of an ESCM.
What is teach?
Water is the only substance on Earth found in these three forms.
What is solid, liquid and gas?
This process or terminology uses ingredients that otherwise would not have gone to human consumption.
What is upcycle?
The number of sustainable development goals adopted by Costco.
What is seven?
6 Clean Water and Sanitation, 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, 10 Reduced Inequalities, 12 Responsible Consumption & Production, 13 Climate Action, 14 Life Below Water, 15 Life on Land
This is one of the three pod objectives in the next 12-months.
1. Establish automated reports for the ESG Goals for 5 STAR program.
2. Enhance reporting capabilities and business adoption.
3. Build packaging solution for data and analysis.