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八月 25, 2009

Energy Efficiency in Fast Food Restaurants

Until this year, Bassam Odeh had no way of knowing whether an employee at his fast-food restaurants had left open the door to the freezer or the walk-in cooler. Now he gets a text message whenever that happens. Joseph Harberg, a partner with Dallas-ba...

八月 16, 2009

McDonald's VP Bob Langley on sustainability

McDonalds (MCD) has been vilified by a number of movies and books, including Fast Food Nation. The company is a favorite punching bag for environmental and nutritional activists. While Big Mac's are hardly health food, the company has diversified its m...

八月 12, 2009

Frito-Lay's Killingly Facility 'Gets Off the Grid'

PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Killingly, Conn., manufacturing facility today celebrated the inauguration of its Co-Generation system, which will generate almost 100% of the site's electrical requirements. To maximize the system, the facility will utilize the was...

八月 07, 2009

Yum! brands, premiada por su programa de formación sobre sostenibilidad para su personal

Yum! Brands, empresa estadounidense propietaria de las cadenas de restaurantes KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell y Long John Silver's, ha sido galardonada por su programa de formación sobre sostenibilidad para sus empleados "2008 Earth Week", según i...

八月 05, 2009

Lamb Weston plans Sweet Potato Processing Plant in Louisiana

ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston announced today plans to build a new, state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly processing plant near Delhi, Louisiana, designed primarily to process high-quality sweet potatoes from the region into fries and related product...

Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP)

八月 04, 2009

Organic Potato Production at Idaho University Kimberly Research Farm: steep learning curve

The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides and the University of Idaho hosted an organic production field day at the Kimberly research farm in mid-July.At the Kimberly research farm, University of Idaho Researchers have dedicated an 11-acr...

七月 21, 2009

Northwest collaborative receives potato IPM grant

Collaboration among the Washington State Potato Commission, federal research labs and three Northwest universities has resulted in the award of over $2 million in USDA grant funds targeted for research to improve pest management in potato fields.WSPC D...

Walmart sustainability meeting July 2009

七月 16, 2009

Walmart introduces sustainability Index

Walmart today announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index during a meeting with 1,500 of its suppliers, associates and sustainability leaders at its home office. The index will establish a single source of data for evaluating the s...

七月 14, 2009

Shearer’s foods breaks ground for new tortilla chips plant

Ground breaking for Shearer’s Foods Massillon Production Facility Phase I took place Tuesday, July 14 on site. Ohio’s First LEED Gold Certified Food Manufacturing Plant is being constructed in the NEO Com Industrial Park. The initial phase will house p...

六月 30, 2009

Consumers Are Confused, Skeptical About Green Products

New results released today from a national survey, one of four annual surveys conducted by the Shelton Group, show most Americans are trying to buy more green products, but many don’t have enough knowledge to make meaningful choices. When asked, &quot...

六月 12, 2009

Founder Of Deep River Snacks Stays Picky About Product's Marketing

Having started his company in 2001 during one economic skid and persevering through another in recent months, James Goldberg, president of Old Lyme Gourmet Co., received a call one day from Wal-Mart.They wanted to carry Deep River Snacks, his line of ...

六月 10, 2009

Frito-Lay offers local potato chips

Recently Frito-Lay started a campaign in the US to show consumers where their bag of Lays Chips was manufactured and even where the potatoes for that specific bag were grown: the Chips Tracker. In the ads, Frito-Lay features potato farmers growing their chips potatoes in California, New England, Texas, Michigan and Florida.

五月 18, 2009

NRA 2009: Pavilions highlight organic, green product lines

Natural and eco-friendly offerings continue to draw operators' attention as demonstrated by the products showcased in the Organic &Natural and Green Restaurant Products pavilions at the 2009 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel S...

五月 11, 2009

'Lay's local': find out who made your potato chips

This month, Frito-Lay kicks-off its largest ever marketing campaign called "Lay's Local" to celebrate the more than 40,000 Americans across the country who grow the potatoes we use to make Lay’s brand potato chips, who make the chips at Frito...

五月 03, 2009

Frito-Lay packs to find new life as totebags, notebooks

Frito-Lay North America, Plano, TX, a division of PepsiCo, has announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. (www.terracycle.net) an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quali...

四月 17, 2009

Potato shippers rally for higher truck weight limits

The potato industry is backing a bill that would change the 20 year-old national truck weight restriction from a maximum of 80,000 pounds up to 97,000 pounds, which could allow them to ship 19% more potatoes at the same cost.Potato grower-shippers and ...

四月 16, 2009

Biodegradable Snack Food Packaging for Sunchips introduced

SunChips, Frito-Lay’s popular line of multigrain snacks, announced today that in 2010 it will introduce the first fully compostable snack chip bag made from plant-based materials. The change is designed to significantly improve the environmental impact...

四月 02, 2009

McDonald's empieza a reducir el uso de pesticidas

McDonald's Corp, el mayor comprador de la papa en los Estados Unidos, ha acordado adoptar los primeros pasos para reducir el uso de plaguicidas en las explotaciones de sus proveedores nacionales, dijo el martes un grupo de accionistas . Tras el acuer...