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In 2018, Ottumwa, Iowa, received the EPA Region 7 Pollution Prevention Award for the team’s work in water conservation. The Ottumwa team has been successful in reducing the gallons per head from 156.54 gallons in 2015 to 122.29 in 2017, a total volume reduction of 13.5 percent. The reduction in freshwater use helped increase production…

The Rockhampton production facility has partnered with a local turf company to use on-site effluent and composted manure to produce a value-adding supply of turf grass for sale to the public. As a result, maintaining the sustainability of the site irrigation areas and nutrient mass balance has improved.

Our Grand Island beef production facility has led a multi-year effort involving local and state governments and third-party vendors to reduce its contributions to landfills by more than 50 percent. The project involved designing a beneficial reuse method for waste byproduct. The Grand Island team has a goal to reuse 100 percent of the byproducts…

In 2018, 9,700 panels were installed on the rooftop of Primo’s Wacol facility. The solar installation is supplying almost 20% of Wacol’s electricity. The panels cover approximately 75% of the roof – 25,000 square meters, which is the same size as approximately six football fields. The preparation and installation of the solar system was no…

Pilgrim’s Moy Park Beef Orléans and a key customer approached the Institute of Livestock to contribute to the development of a tool called “CAP’2ER,” which allows farmers to assess their environmental impact and identify action plans. This tool is being deployed in a network of 50 volunteer farms. Ultimately, it is intended to be made…

Pilgrim’s Moy Park participates in the European Union Emission Trading Scheme and complies with the Energy Savings Opportunities Scheme as well as the Climate Change Agreement Scheme across industrial and agricultural sectors.

The Dinmore beef production facility upgraded its wastewater treatment system, investing more than AUD$8.7 million to facilitate the capture and use of biogas. This has resulted in the offset of natural gas by more than 74,140 gigajoules per year and reduced fugitive greenhouse gas emissions from the wastewater treatment system by 97 percent (through flare…

The Greeley beef production facility achieved the largest energy savings of Colorado Xcel Energy customers at a single location. They achieved annual energy reductions of 5,034,654 kWh and removed 2,862 tons of CO2e from the atmosphere.

The Brooks beef production facility enhanced its wastewater treatment system, to improve the recovery of grease byproduct. The improvement resulted in an approximate 25 percent increase in recovered grease for beneficial reuse and an annual reduction of more than 25,000 tons of CO2e from the downstream wastewater treatment process.

Our Tolleson, AZ and Grand Island, NE, beef, Ottumwa, IA, and Marshalltown, IA, pork, Sumter, NC, chicken and Council Bluffs, IA, Plumrose production facilities converted lighting to light-emitting diode (LED), which resulted in a lighting energy demand reduction of more than 17.6 million kWh and 20.8 lbs. of CO2e annually. Due to improved light and visibility,…