Helping address food insecurity through grant to Little Bit Foundation
Environmental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability is an important part of Centene’s operations. As a healthcare company with employees working remotely or in offices, our efforts are focused on minimizing our environmental footprint in the areas we serve.
Our Employees and Environmental Stewardship
Our Environmental Employee Engagement Group (EEEG is an employee-led initiative that engages in sustainability-focused projects, programs and practices. Members of this group helped develop training resources covering our corporate sustainability framework and responsible waste management practices that were made available to all employees through our learning management system. This training increases awareness of the company’s environmental impacts, our environmental guidelines and climate-related risks, and outlines ways to reduce consumption of energy, water and other natural resources.
We routinely partner with local communities, nonprofit organizations and other businesses to create a positive environmental impact through activities such as tree planting and nature cleanups.
Eco-Friendly Facility Operations
As part of the adoption of a more modern, flexible work environment, we have reduced our real estate footprint by establishing strategically located talent hubs in communities we serve. The talent hub locations support collaboration and engagement among our teams when they are at the office. Our flexible approach to work locations has resulted in fewer employees coming into offices, which reduces the need for physical office space, reduces daily employee commuting and leads to lower emissions and energy consumption.
St. Louis, MO
The campus of Centene’s headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, features two LEED Gold Certified buildings with vegetated rooftops and over 44,000 square feet of native plantings. The rooftop green space reduces storm water runoff while decreasing energy consumption and reducing the heat island effect.
Responsible Consumption And Recycling Initiatives
To reduce the amount of waste we generate, we have implemented recycling and waste management practices throughout our facilities, and we encourage employees to practice the “4 Rs”: refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle. Highlights of our waste management practices include:
EcoServ: Centene is working with programs, including InstallNET’s EcoServ to resell, reuse and recycle office furniture for buildings or spaces no longer in use, resulting in over 2 million pounds of waste being diverted from landfills since 2022.
*According to EcoServ’s Program Impact Report for January – December 2023
Print Optimization: Centene has established a multiyear workstream focused on electronic document delivery to enhance our member journeys and lower costs. This initiative helped us save millions of sheets of paper corresponding with our 4.4 million Marketplace members in 2024, leading to reduced waste and carbon emissions.
Food Services: Guckenheimer, Centene’s café food service provider, uses eco-effective systems to convert waste into renewable resources, such as turning food scraps into compost for local farms and converting cooking oils and grease into biofuels. In 2024, Centene’s corporate office in St. Louis composted an estimated 53,000 pounds with our food waste diversion program.
EV Charging Stations: Select Centene offices have electric vehicle (EV) charging stations installed to support EV owners looking to decrease their daily commuting emissions. Our St. Louis corporate headquarters office has 10 EV charging stations for employee use.*
*As of April 2025
Access to healthy, affordable food is a challenge for many in the communities we serve. Learn how Centene’s Washington subsidiary, Coordinated Care, is working to increase access to nutrition education and healthy food for their community.
