Keter’s Valuable 500 Commitment:
Founded in 1948, Keter Group is a global resin-based consumer products group and one of the world’s leading manufacturers of durable home and garden products, as well as medical waste solutions, which are sold to consumers and businesses in 108 countries.
We have always put environmental consciousness at our core. From our earliest days, we have invested in innovation to provide the most durable products using minimum virgin resources, enabling our consumers to enjoy our beautiful, functional designs, year after year, while preserving the integrity of our natural environment. We are unique in our industry because we have always sought to design for what is now known as the circular economy: follow the principles of recyclability, use recycled content, produce near-zero waste and design products built to endure.
Beyond environmental sustainability, our business is for people. We aim to make living easier and more comfortable and make our customers’ home and work surroundings more orderly and pleasing places to live, work and relax. During the past year, we have pulled together the elements of our approach to sustainability with our role as a contributor to better living and sustainable development to create a coherent strategy and specific commitments for the next five years and beyond. Based on our material impacts, we are allocating resources to further drive our positive impacts on people, society and the planet, while accelerating a reduction in our negative impacts. We have formulated a strategy comprising multi-year targets across three workstreams.
This our commitment by 2025:
1. Better Products for Better Places
2. Better Planet
3. Better Business
Some of our key projects:
1. Making Keter Accessible – In Israel, in 2020, we embarked upon an Accessibility Program at all our factories and offices. With a nominated, trained Accessibility Trustee at each site, we are updating fittings, signage, entrance ramps and accessibility features to ensure our places are accessible for all. In the U.S., we comply at all our sites with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which includes similar accessibility provisions.
2. Welcoming the differently abled: In Israel, we maintain an ongoing partnership with Ha’Meshakem, a company dedicated to the integration of people with disabilities into the job market. Each year and including through the pandemic period in 2020, we employ tens of differently abled individuals in our factories across Israel.
3. In 2020, we demonstrated solidarity in exceptional ways due to the COVID-19 pandemic, converting our factories to support the production of face shields and donating thousands to support frontline healthcare workers.
4. Supporting Women Paralympic Athletes: Keter Israel contributes to the advancement of inclusive sports by adopting 4 outstanding women Paralympic athletes, providing financial support that enables them to continue to train full time.
