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Carbon Footprint

PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Modesto Facility Becomes California's First Existing Food Manufacturing Site To Achieve LEED Gold

U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)

The facility has reduced its natural gas consumption by 25 percent per pound of product and its electricity use by 24 percent per pound of product since 1999.

Material Handling Equipment

Green Brigades

Warehouse operations derive high efficiencies from ASRS solutions.

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Green Highways

Transportation management systems provide more than optimized routes.

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How Green Is Your Returnables Process?

Robust reverse logistics programs reap not only sustainability benefits, but they also feed the bottom line.

Compression damage die to insufficient pallet deck coverage.

Fleet Management

Volatile Fuel Prices Are Top Fleet Manager Concern: Survey

GE Capital Trailer Fleet Services

Conducted at the 2011 NAFA Institute & Expo, the survey finds that driver safety and cost savings are also top areas of concern.

Waste Reduction

Food Waste: Over A Billion Tons Are Squandered Each Year

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Driscoll's Teams Up With CHEP

CHEP USA, a Brambles company

By pallet pooling, Driscoll's expects to reduce carbon emissions by 146 tons per year.

Americold Completes LED Lighting Retrofits In Two Cold Storage Facilities

Project with SmartWatt Energy produces higher quality light and dramatically reduces overall energy consumption.

Supply Chain Education

Green Mountain College Announces Master's In Sustainable Food Systems

Online program aims to educate food and agricultural leaders with knowledge of the economic, ecological and social forces driving food systems.

Carbon Footprint

Target Joins EPA’s GreenChill Program To Reduce Refrigeration Emissions

Target Corporation

Program will help Target achieve its sustainability goals by offering an industry benchmarking system and greater access to EPA research.

Carbon Footprint

Supervalu To Source Top Seafood From Sustainable Fisheries By 2015

Grocery company to source 100 percent of top 20 wild-caught seafood products from sustainable fisheries or those on clear pathway to sustainability.

Safeway Tops Greenpeace Seafood Sustainability Rankings

Supermarket chain moves up three notches, snatching the number one position from Target, last year’s top rated retailer.

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