Our Sustainability Pillars
At WestRock, we imagine and deliver on the promise of a sustainable future: Supporting People and Communities, Innovating for Our Customers and Their Customers and
Bettering the Planet.
At WestRock, we are imagining and delivering on the promise of a sustainable future. We’re innovating to help our customers reach their sustainability goals and win in the market. Setting science-based goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Stewarding natural resources. Working toward 100% safety. Becoming an employer of choice.
A message from our CEO
Innovate boldly. Package sustainably.™
At WestRock, we consider it a privilege and an important responsibility to build on our company’s legacy of contributing to a more sustainable world. We are committed to every aspect of sustainability from supporting our people and communities, to bettering the planet, to innovating for our customers and their customers.
Thank you for joining us on this journey, as we continue to imagine and deliver on the promise of a sustainable future.
Sincerely,
David Sewell, president and chief executive officer
Our sustainability pillars
Supporting People and Communities
Supporting People and Communities
We support our team members’ success through programs, practices and policies that promote their safety and growth, and give back to the communities where we operate.
In fiscal year 2023, WestRock:
- Received a 77% employee engagement score, continuing to work towards our annual goal of 85%
- Spent over $940 million with small and diverse-owned businesses
- Invested more than $3.6 million with strategic community partners
Bettering the Planet
Bettering the Planet
We believe that sustainable environmental practices are good business. We embrace our responsibility to promote the health of the environment for future generations and we seek to enhance the circularity of our business.
We advanced our environmental sustainability strategy by:
- Reducing Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 11.3% and reducing Scope 3 emissions by 15.3% from our fiscal 2019 baseline in pursuit of our validated science-based target (SBT) for 2030
Innovating to Serve Our Customers and Their Customers
Innovating to Serve Our Customers and Their Customers
We partner with our customers to help them meet their customers’ demands and their own ambitious sustainability goals. Being a valued partner takes the expertise and creativity to develop new ideas and the willingness to pursue them. It takes innovation.
In fiscal 2023, we continued advancing our approach to innovation on behalf of our customers and the planet. Read more about our innovation stories.
Data and Resource Center
Data and Resource Center
Review ESG performance data, reports and other resources about sustainability at WestRock.
Our Sustainability Pillars
At WestRock, we imagine and deliver on the promise of a sustainable future: Supporting People and Communities, Innovating for Our Customers and Their Customers and
Bettering the Planet.
Circularity at WestRock
Our fiber-based packaging solutions have a continuous life cycle beyond the shelf. The circular economy at WestRock revolves around fiber, our core input, which comes from forests.
Sustainable development goals
WestRock’s sustainability targets contribute toward these Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Sustainability in action
Accelerating development of projects with great potential to impact the circular economy
How package design improved user experience and reduced waste for Valvoline
How a major craft brewer replaced plastic packaging with a paper-based innovation
WestRock named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index for North America for third consecutive year
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