Environmental

Highlights

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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.
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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.
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Eight Senators Urge EPA to Share Small Meat Processor Input on Wastewater Regulation Revisions

Nov. 20, 2023
With the December 2023 target looming for proposed revisions to the Meat and Poultry Products (MPP) Effluent Guidelines and Standards, the small processor community is voicing...
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Legal Issues

Poultry Companies File Motion to Dismiss Oklahoma Watershed Pollution Ruling

Oct. 30, 2023
Group claims evidence in ruling that they polluted the Illinois River in Oklahoma is more than 13 years old, and advancements have already been made to protect the watershed.
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Business Strategies

Cargill Upcycles Hershey's Chocolate Waste Into Animal Feed

Oct. 18, 2023
In a win-win for the two companies: Hershey reduces its landfill waste and Cargill gets a quality feed ingredient.
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Awards

PepsiCo, Six Other Food & Beverage Companies Among ‘Best Corporate Citizens’

Oct. 18, 2023
PepsiCo ranks sixth, and Hershey, Mondelez, Kellogg, General Mills, Kraft Heinz and Coca-Cola round out the 3BL-Institutional Shareholder Services list.
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Green Plant of the Year

Green Plant of the Year 2023: Hormel's Fontanini Foods

Oct. 16, 2023
Hormel’s Fontanini Foods plant used ingenuity and innovative engineering to drive down water and energy use and minimize the oils and sludge in the Illinois plant’s wastewater...
Environmental

Survey: Climate Change Efforts Lag

July 20, 2022
Investors in meat and dairy companies are worried that they’re not doing enough to combat climate change, according to a new survey.
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Dutch Farmers Protest Pollution Rules

July 11, 2022
Farmers in Holland have been staging a series of increasingly obstreperous protests against environmental rules that they say will force some of them out of business.
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CPG Leaders ID 5 Priorities To Meet 2030 UN Sustainability Goals

June 20, 2022
The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) report calls for collaboration among all food & beverage companies.
Marketing

Companies Protest B Lab Certification of Nespresso

June 16, 2022
If the Nestle unit buys coffee from farms with human rights violations, what happens to the integrity and relevance of B Corp Certification?