Environmental

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Snack Foods

Pipcorn, Spudsy Snack Brands Combine to Form UpSnack Brands

Oct. 30, 2024
Both brands have sold their assets to the newly formed snack company focused on better-for-you and better-for-the-planet snack products.
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Environmental

Fresh Del Monte Produce Hits Scope 1 and 2 GHG Goals Seven Years Early

Oct. 21, 2024
Fresh-cut fruits and vegetables company also reduced its Scope 1 CO2 emissions from vessel shipping by 19% in 2024, surpassing its sustainability goals there as well.
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Green Plant of the Year

Green Plant of the Year: Keystone Potato Products Takes Sustainability to New Levels

Oct. 1, 2024
Keystone uses landfill-sourced methane and cleaned coal-mine water to reach nearly 100% potato utilization through value-added, environmentally friendly outputs for off-grade ...
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Fruits and Vegetables

Plenty Unlimited Opens First Indoor Vertical Strawberry Farm

Sept. 25, 2024
Plenty Richmond Farm represents a decade’s worth of work to develop methods to grow more than just lettuce in vertical indoor farming facilities.
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Business Strategies

Processors Find Sustainability Projects that Push the Envelope

Sept. 11, 2024
Successful sustainability initiatives can be found everywhere in the food & beverage industry. See what PepsiCo, Unilever, Hormel, Talking Rain, Celestial Tea and others are doing...
Courtesy of Vital Proteins
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Packaging Materials

Vital Proteins Debuts New Paper-Based Canister for Its Collagen Peptides Products

Aug. 14, 2024
The new canister design will eliminate more than 90% of the company’s plastic use over the next several years.
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Packaging Materials

Cafe Spice Changes Retail Tray Packaging to More Eco-Friendly Alternative

July 10, 2024
Indian meals processor will use a more sustainable option for its plastic trays in retail products, plans to embark upon similar initiative with foodservice products.
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Energy Efficiency

Unilever Ice Cream Wins $21 Million from DoE To Reduce Carbon Emissions

March 26, 2024
Four of its U.S. plants will replace natural gas boilers with electric boilers and industrial heat pumps using waste heat recovery.
Environmental

Campbell’s Napoleon, Ohio, Plant Facing Wastewater Discharge Lawsuits

March 21, 2024
U.S. Dept. of Justice as well as two environmental groups have filed suits alleging the plant wastewater exceeds allowable pollutant levels into the Maumee River and eventually...
Regulatory Compliance

USDA, FDA, EPA Propose National Food Waste Reduction Strategy

Dec. 4, 2023
Public comment on the draft strategy opens Dec. 5 for 30 days; proposed framework aims to help reach goal to reduce food loss and waste in U.S. by 50% by 2030.
Environmental

Prairie Farms Dairy Northeast Iowa Cheese Plant Faces Wastewater Discharge Penalties

Nov. 30, 2023
Bacteria, ammonia and other pollutant levels from the plant near Luana, Iowa, exceeded Dept. of Natural Resources limits allowed.
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Environmental

Danone Invests to Reduce Dairy Farm Methane Emissions

Nov. 27, 2023
The multinational joins the Global Methane Hub to fund the Enteric Fermentation R&D Accelerator.
Courtesy of Homefree
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Packaging Materials

Cookie, Brownie Maker Homefree Wins Google Single-Use Plastics Challenge

Nov. 22, 2023
Processor has focused on reuse of foodgrade materials for snack packaging and environmentally friendly cookie boxes.