At DS Smith, we are re-imagining and redefining packaging for a changing world. Sustainability sits at the heart of our business. It is core to our purpose. For us, sustainability is about working together for the future of our planet, and helping our customers offer sustainable solutions so consumers can keep consuming at convenience but not at a cost to the environment.
That’s why we have an ambitious Now and Next Sustainability Strategy to tackle the sustainability challenges facing us today, together with those that will impact our future generations. It focuses on closing the loop through better design, protecting natural resources by making the most of every fibre, reducing waste and pollution through circular solutions, and equipping people to lead the transition to a circular economy.
Our Now and Next Sustainability Strategy
Our ambition is a big one. By 2025 we will take 1 billion pieces of problem plastics off supermarket shelves, by 2030, our packaging will be 100% reusable or recyclable, eliminating consumer waste all together. And, we’ll engage 5 million young people on the circular economy and circular lifestyles through our community and school outreach programmes so we can educate our next generation.
That’s where you come in.
Be a pioneer in the shift to the Circular Economy
Our people are the foundation of our success, and by joining our team you can lead the transition to the Circular Economy - a genuine solution to some of the biggest global sustainability challenges facing the world like pollution, waste, biodiversity loss and climate change. Together we can create sustainable packaging solutions that our society needs. But the clock is ticking, and to make change happen faster we are already hard at work, building a dynamic and diverse ecosystem of people from across our own business, our industry, government, communities and beyond.
A circular future is a really exciting prospect, and you can help us build it. From tackling the environmental issues to saving billions of euros in product costs, creating as many as ¾ million new jobs across Europe alone by the end of the decade.
Wouter Van Tol
Head of Government, Community Affairs & Sustainability at DS Smith
Every day we come to work with a purpose
You can make a real difference. We are empowering our people to tackle some of the worlds’ most complex sustainability challenges in the whole, not just one part, to find answers that would otherwise be out of reach. From design, to product and supply, to recycling, we offer our customers a joined-up solution that is sustainable for all of us. And that’s why our team of around 29,000 DS Smith employees across 300+ sites in Europe and North America come to work every day.
HydropolTM - a sustainable polymer, an alternative to single-use plastics
Join a business that’s a gamechanger like you
If you’re ambitious, care about the future of our planet and want a rewarding career with a real purpose – welcome to DS Smith. We’re going to be good together.
