Snapple’s variety of ingredients include filtered water filtered water, citric acid, tea, aspartame, potassium citrate, natural flavors, phenylketonurics, and phenylalanine, sugar, tea, juice concentrate, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, and malic acid (http://www.snapple.com/products). The raw materials used by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group includes: aluminum cans and ends, PET bottles and caps, glass bottles, paper products, sweeteners, juice, fruit, water, and more. (http://csimarket.com/stocks/suppliers_glance.php?code=DPS). Snapple bottles are manufactured by the Ardagh Group in Salem N.J. where about 3 million bottles made from recycled materials are shipped daily (http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/11/190668206/how-a-used-bottle-becomes-a-new-bottle-in-6-gifs). Dr Pepper Snapple Group does not provide information on who their suppliers are of their raw materials, as it could release important information to their competitors. Because of this, it is hard to find the cost and location of their raw materials used.

        Dr Pepper Snapple Group operations are based in North America and the Carribeans, whom they keep to ethical standards (http://www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com/company/ethical-sourcing/). Over the last few years, Dr Pepper Snapple Group has improved their production while still reducing their environmental impact. They established an environmental management system (EMS) to ensure their environmental policies and guidelines. The 2015 goals of the Dr Pepper Snapple Group included: improving energy efficieny to reduce CO2 from emissions by 10% per gallon of the product, replacing 60,000 vending machines and coolers with Energy Star-rated equipment, recycling 90% of manufacturing solid waste, conserving more than 60 million pounds of plastic through packaging, reducing manufacturing water use and wastewater discharge, and increasing product shipment per gallon of fuel by 20% (http://www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com/company/environmental-sustainability/).