Survey says: sustainability and Dirty Dozen feedback

(The Packer)

What is your top goal for sustainability?

It is an unfair question, true, but I recently posted this poll question to the LinkedIn Industry Discussion Group:


What is the top sustainability priority for your company?

The poll structure only allows four potential answers and I listed: 

  • Soil health;
  • Reduce plastic packaging;
  • Increase water efficiency;
  • Farmworker well being;

The early voting shows the clear leaders are the “reduction in plastic” (44%) and “farmworker well being” (39%).

As one reader pointed out, all of the above should be part of a sustainability plan, and more besides?

But what is your top goal?

 

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