Reusing and Recycling Within Stores
H-E-B Partners work hard to recycle or reuse packaging and material in the back of our stores so we can cut down on single-use materials, repurpose excess material or food by-product into new things, and recycle items when we’re done using them.
We reuse the boxes your chips come in an average of 9 times before recycling.
Our Produce department with the help of a 3rd party sanitizes and reuses floral buckets, and they’ve been doing it since 1999! We turn our milk jugs into black paint buckets, fryer grease is sent to make fuel, and any bakery dough leftovers go to fuel or animal feed. Rest assured, we look for inventive ways to make every inch productive. Even our yellow coupons get recycled!
For almost 20 years, we’ve been recycling our store and other operational plastic, with almost 17.5 million pounds recycled this year. Last year, H-E-B’s recycling efforts saved the equivalent of 11 million trees, 1.6 million barrels of oil, and enough to power more than 83,000 homes for an entire year.
