Whether your co-op currently has a sustainability program in place or not, check out our new useful step-by-step sustainability guides:
Green Team Guide – This guide will help your co-op establish a Green Team, a group of employees committed to seeking out and implementing sustainability initiatives in your store.
Discarded Materials Audit Guide – This guide will walk your Green Team or other selected staff through the process of conducting a Discarded Materials Audit at your co-op, a best practice for sustainability. A Discarded Materials Audit helps you understand your waste stream and allows you to establish realistic goals for improvement.
About National Co+op Grocers
National Co+op Grocers (NCG), founded in 1999, is a business services cooperative for retail food co-ops located throughout the United States. NCG helps unify food co-ops in order to optimize operational and marketing resources, strengthen purchasing power, and ultimately offer more value to natural food co-op owners and shoppers everywhere.
NCG's 168 community-owned food co-ops operate 234 stores in 40 states with combined annual sales of nearly $2.8 billion. NCG is a winner of the dotCoop Global Awards for Cooperative Excellence and a Certified B Corp. Learn more about NCG and find a map of member co-ops at grocery.coop.
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