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Every day, our products bring pleasure and satisfaction to billions of people and pets around the world. Our foods help provide nutritious meals, while our chocolate and confectionery can provide a tasty treat as part of a healthy, balanced diet. By sourcing our ingredients responsibly, we help provide an income for farmers and producers worldwide. Our factories are committed to manufacturing our products responsibly by reducing their waste, energy and water use. Click here to read more

Mars Food has halved the cooking time of some UNCLE BEN’S® rice products.

Product Energy Use

Our efforts to minimize our impacts do not stop when our brands leave our factories. We want to help consumers reduce environmental impacts when they use our products, including the energy consumed by our drinks machines and used when cooking our foods.

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Packaging

Quality packaging is critical for our products to travel from factory to store to home. It ensures longer-lasting freshness and prevents food from spoiling, enables efficient transport, identifies our brands and gives consumers important information.

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Excess Mars packaging ready to be repurposed by Mitz.

Responsible Gum Disposal and Environmental Education

While the vast majority of consumers dispose of their gum properly, not everyone has the same respect for their communities. We take the issue of littered chewing gum seriously and believe that education and awareness are critical parts of the solution.

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Wrigley volunteers working with Keep America Beautiful.
Walking dogs at the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition.

Responsible Pet Ownership

At Mars, we are committed to improving the lives of pets. We believe that pet ownership brings tremendous benefits to people and communities.

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