In the future, Mercedes-Benz will inform its employees in the canteens about the carbon footprint of the dishes on offer.
The carmaker announced this on Wednesday in Stuttgart.
As a result of the step “our employees will be able to make conscious and climate-friendly eating decisions in the future”, Sabine Kohleisen, Director of Human Resources, is quoted in the statement.
Gustave parts
Business correspondent in Stuttgart.
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At the Untertürkheim, Sindelfingen and Vaihingen locations, the climate balance is already being reported in the canteens.
By the end of March, all canteens in Germany that Mercedes operates itself should follow suit.
There are 11 locations in total.
An institute is investigating the climate impact of food "from the field to the kitchen" and calculating CO2 equivalents.
The exposure to methane or nitrous oxide is therefore taken into account.
According to Kohleisen, more than 9 million lunches are produced in the canteens in an average financial year.
This is an enormous potential to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.
Falafel instead of pork tenderloin
Overall, the car company wants to reduce the CO2 emissions of the canteens by 15 percent by the end of the year, also through the food used and the dishes offered.
Plastic packaging has been banned for almost a year.
Since the end of September 2021 there has been a purely vegan menu line every day.
A vegan falafel dish has “less than a tenth the greenhouse gas emissions of a pork tenderloin dish.”
The menu plan in car manufacturers' canteens has caused a stir in the past.
In the summer, Volkswagen's move to no longer offer meat and therefore no currywurst in the canteen in the brand's high-rise building in Wolfsburg heated people's minds.