Landfill Free by 2025 | Candy Road Desserts

There’s extra behind out desserts than positive components. There’s a heartfelt dedication to our planet, our neighborhood and our individuals. Adhering to socially accountable buying, guaranteeing our world can flourish for future generations. That is our dedication to our companions and prospects.

In 2022, Candy Road introduced the Landfill Free by 2025 initiative. By partnering with sustainable power crops, the bakery’s waste stream might be transformed to biodiesel gas and all remaining supplies might be recycled or used as gas to generate electrical energy.

Biodiesel is a renewable, biodegradable gas manufactured domestically from vegetable oils, animal fat, or recycled restaurant grease. Biodiesel meets each the biomass-based diesel and general superior biofuel requirement of the Renewable Gasoline Commonplace. Renewable diesel, additionally referred to as “inexperienced diesel,” is distinct from biodiesel. (https://afdc.power.gov)

We recycle cardboard, aluminum, metallic, plastics and all paper. Relatively than sending waste to a landfill, we both recycle or use it as gas to generate electrical energy at a close-by energy plant. It additionally lowers our variety of hauls, which conserves fuel and reduces emissions. By doing so, we lowered our waste hauling by almost 1000 tons over 2 years. We’re aggressively working towards our purpose, being utterly landfill free by 2025.

We produce frozen desserts shipped all over the world and we should ship these within the most interesting situation with zero meals questions of safety. Along with assembly meals grade requirements, over 95% of our plastic packaging is recyclable number one or 6. We’ve got lowered the dimensions of our packaging, and our mailing carton is created from recycled materials. The truth is, 46% of the fiber used to make all of our corrugated packaging is recovered/recycled. Our corrugated packaging suppliers are licensed by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.

Our bakery operates with an power conservation mindset. We’re continually taking a look at methods to cut back our environmental footprint. Current initiatives have included putting in variable frequency drives to cut back fan speeds the place attainable (electrical energy discount), automating cooling tower operation to higher management water utilization (water discount) and using warmth dissipated by our product cooling system to warmth our plant water 12 months spherical.