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The Week Ahead in 60 Seconds: What a (Food) Waste

Editor-in-Chief Lara L. Sowinski

Carbon Footprint

Reducing Lighting Energy Consumption by 90 Percent: Facts to Know on Decreasing Costs & Improving Efficiencies

A properly designed and implemented LED lighting system in a cold storage facility can reduce the lighting energy consumption up to 90 percent and significantly decrease operational and maintenance costs for years to come.

Gary D. Hubbard

New Energy Program Would Help Food Industry

Decreasing energy consumption helps to save bottom line.

Carbon Footprint

Concepts On Sustainable Food

New briefing on sustainable food for the food industry.

Food Companies Urged To improve Sustainable Strategies

Firms in the food sector urged to devote time in environmental supply chain policies.

Pork Suppliers To Go Crate-Free

Pork suppliers announce future goals.

Fuel Efficiency

Company Launches Website Focused on Sustainability

General Electric (GE)

GE Capital Fleet Services creates interactive website centered on alternative fuels and sustainability.

Fuel Efficiency

FedEx pledge to Sustainability Increases

FedEx Corporation

FedEx’s sustainability initiatives rise by 50 percent.

Starbucks New Recycling Movement

The biorefinery/recycling technology has environmental benefits.

Company Finishes Expansion Of Avocado Operations

Consumer demands increase for avocados.

Organic or Conventional?

The organic grower should get together with its conventional farming neighbor and work out a “best practices regime” for a more agnostic approach to food production that combines high yields with sustainable and safe farming practices.

Maurice Hladik

Adopting the ASN

SPS Commerce, Inc.

The days are now gone when suppliers could make legitimate excuses based on limited resources and technology for not supporting an ASN requirement given the affordable EDI and label services now available.

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