Environmental

Highlights

Courtesy of Greenham via Applegate
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March 10, 2025
Every Applegate natural and organic beef hot dog will be produced using 100% verified regeneratively sourced beef moving forward.
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Jan. 16, 2025
Current VP of Global Sustainability will take over with the retirement of Barry Parkin.
Courtesy of UpSnack Brands
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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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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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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 ...
Courtesy of Plenty Unlimited
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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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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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Aug. 14, 2024
The new canister design will eliminate more than 90% of the company’s plastic use over the next several years.
Courtesy of Cafe Spice
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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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Dec. 19, 2023
It may take years, but eventually treated wastewater could be directly added to community drinking water systems.
Dec. 18, 2023
Highly anticipated proposal to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and other pollutants in meat and poultry plant wastewater discharge takes steps to protect small processors, but some...
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.
Nov. 30, 2023
Bacteria, ammonia and other pollutant levels from the plant near Luana, Iowa, exceeded Dept. of Natural Resources limits allowed.