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Our Sustainability Journey

Progress in our sustainability efforts comes in all shapes and sizes, from Great Dane-sized projects to tiny kitten initiatives. Regardless of the challenges, we can assure you that we’re motivated and passionate about doing better and being better.

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Our Commitment to Sustainability

Petcurean is committed to being a leader in sustainability in protecting pets, people and our planet, and we have been passionate about making a difference in the world since day one. Our commitments keep challenging the status quo and because we insist on being open and transparent, we strive for continuous improvement in both our performance and our reporting. We have a dedicated Sustainability Manager leading our efforts and a Sustainability Committee helping to propel us forward.

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A Sustainability Plan with a Purpose

Our sustainability plan guides our purposeful steps towards creating positive impacts for pets, planet and the communities we live and work in. We do this through four key Impact Areas.

  • Protecting Our Planet
    Optimizing our business practices to reduce our environmental footprint, protect the health of the world around us, and contribute to a more sustainable future
  • Empowering Our Team
    Supporting our team members’ physical, social, professional and financial well-being
  • Uplifting Our Community
    Gratefully giving back to the communities we serve through year-round support
  • Commitment to Governance
    Becoming ever more accountable, transparent and ethical in the way we work

Petcurean's Four Key Impact Areas for Sustainability

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Our Third Annual

Sustainability Impact Report

Fiscal year 2023 reflected our team’s ongoing journey to translate sustainability ambition into action – and wow, there was a lot of action! Read all about it in our latest Sustainability Impact Report.

Proud Member of the Pet Sustainability Coalition

Petcurean is honoured to be Guardian Member of the Pet Sustainability Coalition (PSC). We’ve been members since 2017 and have been a Pet Sustainability Accredited Company every year since 2018. This Accreditation certifies that we’ve completed an assessment of our business operations in alignment with the United Nations’ SDGs. Our sustainability performance has been audited by a third party, and shown progress annually.

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Our sustainability plan indicates how we’ll progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. While we plan to support all 17 SDGs, we’re particularly focused on SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being, SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, and SDG 13: Climate Action.

Our Commitments

Here are just some of the ways we’re supporting our primary UN SDGs:

We embraced a distributed team approach (i.e. decentralized) for the health, safety, and happiness of our people

We’ve signed the PSC Packaging Pledge and will make the majority of our packaging recyclable by 2025

We're carbon neutral

Our Tier 1 suppliers have signed our Supplier Code of Conduct

We create and produce our pet foods in the most responsible and sustainable manner possible

We’ve donated over 5 million meals for pets in need so far

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Petcurean’s Heart in Action

We put pets first here at Petcurean, in everything we do. Our hearts especially go out to pets in need, and we support them in our communities to ensure a brighter future for all. Through external outreach and internal initiatives, we donate our time and resources to support the following:

Bowls of Food

Feeding pets in need

Bees

Without bees there will be no food to go into our meals

Trees

Planting trees to help combat climate change, and provide joy and enrichment for pets and pet parents alike

Communities

In every community where our team members live, they volunteer to support pets, people, and our planet

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Commitment to Ethical Value Chain Practices

Petcurean is pleased to share our response to Canada’s Bill S-211 Supply Chains Act. Our 2024 report to the government highlights the strong measures we've implemented and our continuous dedication to mitigating the risk of child and forced labour across our value chain.

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