SUSTAINABILITY BY SODEXO

Global Compact is a contract between the United Nations and the international business community to advance 10 universal principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption.

The Global Sullivan Principles of Social Responsibility is a voluntary code of conduct built on a vision of advancing the goals of human rights, social justice, and economic opportunity.

On Campus, Sodexo purchases limited organics from Sysco Food Service, Sysco in turn has programs set up with local farms and orchards to compliment their national purchasing programs. All dairy products are purchased through Kemps dairy a local Wisconsin dairy. Sodexo uses a vegetable vendor with Loffredo as the main produce supplier who in turn is a local company and uses local growers, farms and orchards for products
Fair Trade coffee is purchased from Stone Creek Roasters (click her e for Stone Creek Coffee information) is a locally owned distributor that produces organic roast  coffees and specialist teas. Since August of 2006, eighty-seven percent of the coffee purchased is either fair trade or socially conscious coffee.  Additionally, in the last academic year more than 1,000 reusable travel mugs were distributed and refilled more than 10,000 times.

Sodexo also uses the ECOLAB green chemicals program
All board programs use a full china program for the 3500 board students, no paper is used in the meal program  and Sodexho uses eco-friendly napkins  In retail operations, Sodexho use environmentally friendly styrofoam products  and paper almost completely, Sodexho provides three tiered recycling containers for the separation and handling of foam, paper, garbage, and bottles. Sodexho has a reusable coffee mug program offering reduced pricing for re-fills of the same vessel.

Sodexho recycles paper, bottles and plastic in all retail locations.  Sodexho also recycles all cooking oils from every location on campus, participates in the ECOLAB green chemicals program and will be experimenting with Corn plastic tableware and degradable trash can liners in the coming months. 

Sodexho initiated and supports the Campus Kitchens Program at Marquette University.  Below is a summary of who Campus Kitchens serves on a weekly basis. These numbers do not reflect special meals and extra groceries that are provided for Thanksgiving.  “Turkeypalooza” will serve 418.  Additionally, full grocery bags will be provided to 31 families. 

YWCA Transitional Housing Program: 23
Bethany Calvary Senior Meal: 30
AIDS Resource Center of WI: 30
Family House: 100 servings of bread and bakery= 25 meals a month
Meta House: 65
HeartLove Place kids: 40
HeartLove Place teens: 20
HeartLove Place parents: 65
Old St. Mary's Senior Meal: 30
Mt. Calvary Lutheran School: 30
Milwaukee Women's Center: 30

Total: 388 meals/week