Hunter Industries, San Marcos, California, released its 2021 corporate social responsibility report, where the company shared past year reflections like its 40th anniversary and efforts to improve its environmental impact.
As reported in its 10th annual CSR report, Hunter defined a new list of topics to meet, including community development, employee development and DEI, employee health and safety, responsible supply chain practices, climate impacts and GHG emissions, energy use and renewable energy, product responsibility, waste and water use in 2021.
Hunter saw seven products receive WaterSense certification by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2021, designed 12 products to increase water savings, reassessed its materiality matrix and defined new topics and won a number of awards, including the Irrigation Association’s 2021 New Product Contest for its SRP strip light.
“As we look ahead, we will continue striving to grow our company conscientiously, supporting our communities, and doing our part to protect our planet for future generations,” says Warren Gorowitz, director of corporate social responsibility at Hunter Industries. “Achieving our CSR goals is not the work of one company — it takes all of us working together. Thank you for supporting our CSR journey.”
On the community side of the report, the company increased its volunteerism and charitable giving with a goal to reach $2.5 million per year in donations by 2030. It introduced new training and workshop opportunities for its employees with a goal to reach 85% employee satisfaction by 2030. It included more diversity, equity and inclusion programs into its recruiting, human resources and employee development teams.
On the environmental side of the 2021 CSR, Hunter included a goal to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions from its 2019 baseline by 2030 and measure Scope 3 emissions by 2025. At its San Marcos headquarters, it collaborated with its local utility since 2018 to reduce its energy consumption through their Strategic Energy Management program. Over the past two and a half years, Hunter completed 42 energy reduction projects.
The company also plans on installing four solar projects at its San Marcos headquarters and adding more electrical vehicle charging stations for employees starting in 2022. After finishing the San Marcos solar projects, Hunter will look to develop renewable energy strategies at its other manufacturing facilities. It will complete a lifecycle assessment of one of its best-selling product lines in 2022 in order to set a comprehensive goal to best reduce its environmental impacts.
Other environmental goals include sending zero net waste to the landfill by 2030 and reducing water consumption by 30% against its 2019 benchmark. The company saw a 23% water reduction in 2021 against the benchmark.
Read the full report on Hunter’s website.
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