Nature's Bounty is Growing Greener

Nature's Bounty is ablution the Healthy You, Healthy Earth campaign, a company-wide accomplishment to be a amenable abettor of our planet. These efforts will abate the company's carbon brand by 5 actor pounds of CO2 per year.

Ronkonkoma, NY -- For years, Nature's Bounty has produced vitamins and supplements to advice humans abide longer, convalescent lives -- but they're traveling added than anytime afore to accumulate us all healthy, even after demography their vitamins. Nature's Bounty is ablution the Healthy You, Healthy Earth campaign, a company-wide accomplishment to be a amenable abettor of our planet. Already, their efforts accept advance to their ancestor company, US Nutrition, and assimilate added divisions.

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"You could say that the roots were buried with Nature's Bounty," remarked Kimberly O'Connell, Marketing Director for Nature's Bounty. "Once we appear our ambition to be a greener company, activity and account sprouted quickly."
   
The new blooming efforts at Nature's Bounty body on a solid foundation of nature-friendly behavior already in place, while aswell extensive into new areas of accumulated albatross and association outreach. For example, the bottles acclimated for over 300 articles are fabricated from either recyclable PETE or HDPE plastic. Plus, an already able packaging and battle action is accepting fabricated even greener with the use of redesigned abstracts that will abate the use of corrugated cardboard. And on-site changes to lighting (switching to CFC lighting), press labels with water-based inks, and a new "green taskforce" to attending for added areas of change are all allotment of US Nutrition's efforts to abate their carbon brand by 5 actor pounds of CO2 per year.
   
Now Nature's Bounty has gone a footfall further, partnering with several "get green" organizations. "We capital to go above our own articles and processes," O'Connell explained. "It's important to us to accord aback to the planet; afterwards all, allowance others abide a convalescent activity is in our actual nature."
   
Toward that end, Nature's Bounty has partnered with Trees for the Future -- an ecology alignment that plants copse all about the world; and the Go Green Initiative -- whose efforts to brainwash accouchement about the ambiance has accomplished about the globe. So far, Trees for the Future has buried over 50 actor trees, which abolish about one actor bags of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere per year. Nature's Bounty's ambition is to advice them bulb one actor added copse by 2010.

You could say that the roots were buried with Nature's Bounty Once we appear our ambition to be a greener company, activity and account sprouted quickly. We capital to go above our own articles and processes It's important to us to accord aback to the planet; afterwards all, allowance others abide a convalescent activity is in our actual nature. Helping to brainwash our accouchement at such an aboriginal age on what they can do to advice accomplish a difference, as able-bodied as burying new copse to advice accomplish the apple a little greener…well, that's just convalescent for all of us This is a actual acceptable start but to us it's just the beginning. Our assembly are agog about accomplishing their allotment in authoritative the apple a convalescent abode for everyone. Go Green Initiative programs are up and active in schools in every state, as able-bodied as Africa, Asia, Europe, Canada and Mexico. "Helping to brainwash our accouchement at such an aboriginal age on what they can do to advice accomplish a difference, as able-bodied as burying new copse to advice accomplish the apple a little greener…well, that's just convalescent for all of us," O'Connell adds.
   
"This is a actual acceptable start," O'Connell offered, "but to us it's just the beginning. Our assembly are agog about accomplishing their allotment in authoritative the apple a convalescent abode for everyone."

NBTY is a arch all-around angular chip manufacturer, banker and benefactor of a ample band of high-quality, value-priced comestible supplements in the United States and throughout the world. Under a amount of NBTY and third affair brands, the Company offers over 22,000 products, including articles marketed by the Company's Nature's Bounty®, Rexall®, Sundown®, MET-Rx®, WORLDWIDE Sport Nutrition®, American Health®, Flexamin®, Knox® and Ester-C® brands.