Green

Initiatives

Blistex has been committed throughout their 60-plus years to operating as a socially responsible company. On the sustainability front, while they have had a number of recycling and resource conservation programs in place for many years, in 2008 they took a hard look at their practices and those of other good companies, and it became clear that they could do more. As a result, they began a broad program to quickly identify and implement meaningful changes to reduce their environmental impact. Toward this end, they created the Greenspeed Team, led by employees from a variety of functional areas who had already expressed an interest in driving this effort. In close collaboration with general management and the leaders of all groups in our organization, aggressive goals were set for Greenspeed, and they have rapidly executed a significant number of initiatives designed to improve their sustainability efforts along three primary fronts:

•Ensuring a responsible approach to the amount, sourcing, and material content of their packaging while meeting the need to deliver high quality and innovative OTC drug products to their consumers and retail partners.
•Changing the way they operate and update their facilities, equipment and on-site practices.
•Elevating the consciousness of their entire staff about how they can change behaviors away from work.

Click here for examples of Blistex's sustainability efforts in each of these areas that they've implemented in just the past few years.