Leadership:
Directing the
Zero Waste
Journey
Kathy Kellogg Johnson
Our Vision
“Help people grow beautiful
and healthy gardens…Organically”
Since 1925!
4. Kellogg - Longview, WA
3. Kellogg - Lockeford, CA
2. Kellogg - Ontario, CA
1. Kellogg Offices
Carson, CA 90745
7. Houston, TX
We Have a Bug that’ll EAT that pest!
Compost IS
The SOLUTION
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• “Compost is the SWISS ARMY KNIFE of
Environmental Solutions…”
Dan Noble
“It ought to be a crime
to landfill organics
Our soils are starving for them….”
(“Hi” Kellogg circa 1970)
Certified Organic Formulations
All Kellogg and G&B products are
double certified
“Sometimes “FREE”
is just too expensive”
Henry Jauregui
Every TON of WOOD Recycled
One half of a car
We Seek Excellent Suppliers
Reliable
Dependable
Loyal
Willing to INVEST in our Commitment to ORGANIC
(as defined)
• Contaminant standard is NONE
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“Sometimes FREE is too expensive for us…”
Henry Jauregui
What We Are Looking For
• One Million yards
– 500,000 from
Southern California
Carbonaceous Materials
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Bark,
Wood,
Tree Trimmings/Arbor Fines
Rice hulls,
Stable Bedding,
Construction Debris
Some carefully handled Green Materials
Nitrogenous Materials
• Poultry Manure
• Cow/Steer Manure
• Guanos
• Worm Castings
• Digestate – Food Scraps
• Bat Guano,
• Kelp Meal,, Inoculums
Always in search for Organic fertility / Nitrogen
The Ultimate Consumer
Kellogg as Stewards
• Being a steward of the environment is a part
of the job description
Approaching ZERO Waste
Material in…Material out
• Lockeford 0.0005% disposal
• 99.995% goes out as a
useful product
• Ontario 0.0006% disposal
• 99.994% goes out as a
useful product
“It’s In Our Nature…”
• For 90 years
– People are internally driven to do the right thing by
• Choosing something that saves the company
money
• Striving for efficiency
• Taking pride in our Zero Waste status
– Our leaders affirm this journey
Culture of Employee Involvement
• Leaders foster a culture of employee involvement
– Provide feedback to leaders – we listen
– Empower employees – they learn from mistakes
– Employees are creative – buy-in is natural when the
recycling project originates from the employee
– Employee pride in the system
Employee Desire To Recycle
• Came from the bottom up – Employee driven
• MY first job – Repairing sown bags.
– Bottles and cans - the guys wanted a system to
collect and save
– Plastic bags - single largest volume item
– Steel – nails pulled from the recycled wood
Plastic Recycled
32 Tons Collected/Recycled
Slip Sheets Recycled
339,204 Slip Sheets
Pallets Recycled
195,472 – In Ontario
Cardboard Recycled
5,000 tons per plant
Nails Recycled
22 Tons – In Ontario
Solar Energy
Employee Involvement
• Growth trials together – learning from each other
Environmental Leadership Award
Olivia Jimenez
Purchasing Assistant
Ontario’s Recycling Maven
..Finds a home for
recyclables and
won’t take “No” for
an answer!
Tracking Data
• Scope 5 is a web-based software solution that
helps organizations better manage their
evolving sustainability programs to reduce
environmental impact, resource
consumption, associated costs, and risks
• Measures important activities in terms of CO2e
Highlights From Scope 5
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CO2e
Energy savings
Buying RECYCLED
Water conservation in our operations
Waste recovery
Displacement of chemical fertilizers
Water savings with organics
Our Water Story
Storm Water Ponds
Recycled Water vs. Re-Used on Site
Water Saved on West Coast
• Consumers purchased 50 million CF of organic
material from Kellogg in 2013
• Saving approximately 100 million gallons…but
it could be as high as 1 BILLLION GALLONS!
• IT IS WAY MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT!
• COVER OF NEW SR REPORT GOES HERE
Annual Savings of CO2e
• 1,666,668 tree seedlings
– grown for 10 years
• -or• 53,270 acres of U.S. forests
– in one year
Identified a Triple Impact
• Operational Savings $$$
• Our customers’ impact from USE of Organics
vs. synthetic or chemical equivalents.
• Global impact…
International Year of the Soil - 2015
• The restoration of soil health, experts say, will
require new practices and old-fashioned
"soil husbandry.“
• Over the past 30 years, there's been a big shift
in our understanding of microbial connections
and the community dynamics under the
." ground
"It's the hidden half of nature”
• Africa Pictures – compost pile video clip
68.5% of PWP
households in
Haiti are
practicing
composting
Affirming THEIR Journey
Plant with Purpose
They GET it!
Do WE Get it?
The Public Needs To Know
• 3 inches of organic mulch or
composted material applied to your
topsoil can save at least 30% of the
water lost by evaporation