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Pomegranates, Not Opium: Afghanistan’s Hope And Challenge

Pomegreat, the U.K.-based juice company, signed a multimillion pound supply agreement with the Kabul-based Omaid Bahar Fruit Processing Co. to buy 1,000 tons of pomegranate concentrate.

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Taylor Farms Deploys Wind Turbine To Power Vegetable Processing

The 398-foot turbine came online November 18th and will help power the shipper’s vegetable processing facility in Gonzales, Calif.

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Waste Reduction

Wegmans Western New York Turns Food Scraps Into Fuel

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Food scraps are emptied into an anaerobic digester where it is heated to 104 degrees and mixed with other organic waste full of bacteria like cow manure and rotten animal feed.

Carrefour SA Suspends Vegetable Imports; Will Source Locally

Local vegetables will be favored at Carrefour for at least 10 months in the supermarket chain’s 1,200 French stores.

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Fuel Efficiency

Nestle Waters Deploys Propane Delivery Vehicles

The trucks will deliver Arrowhead® Mountain Spring Water to Los Angeles area businesses and residents.

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Carbon Footprint

Sustainability Fruits And Vegetables Initiative To Achieve 100 Percent Sustainability By 2020

Last summer the group, which includes Ahold, ICA, Jumbo, Lidl, Coop and C1000, announced that it was on track with its goal of 30 per cent sustainability in 2014.

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Report: Sustainability A Mainstream Issue Impacting Restaurant Industry

These days sustainability increasingly encompasses the food actually featured in establishment's menu just as much as it concerns what eco-friendly material the menus might be printed on.

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Your Transport Packaging Impacts Your Sustainability. Are You Measuring It?

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Today’s food companies can actually prove the value of their sustainability if they look closely enough at the numbers behind the supply chain.

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Maines Paper & Food Service Reduces Tractor Fleet Repair And Maintenance Costs

Maines first partnered in 2010 with Fleet Advantage to study the feasibility of a paradigm shift from 6- to 8-year full-service truck leases to the EXchangeIT operating lease model using 4-year lifecycles combined with contract maintenance.

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Mondelez Invests $200 Million In Sustainable Coffee Farming

Over time, data collected across Coffee Made Happy projects will “help build the world’s largest database of coffee farm metrics,” according to Mondelēz.

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C.A.T. Partners With GAIN Clean Fuel

C.A.T., formerly known as Canadian American Transportation C.A.T. Inc., recently signed an agreement with Ryder for the lease of 100 sleeper tractors operating on CNG, nearly a third of C.A.T.’s fleet of 325 tractors.

Plug Power To Offer Hydrogen Fuel To U.S. Customers

Plug Power will offer Praxair liquid hydrogen to its customers throughout the U.S. who are using the company’s GenKey hydrogen fuel cell solution.

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