Smithfield Furthers Sustainability Efforts with Zero Waste-to-Landfill Facility
Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., honored several of its facilities and employees for their successful sustainability efforts through a number of innovative environmental projects during fiscal year 2013 that hepled save more than 592 million gallons of water, nearly 12 million kilowatts of electricity and about 721,000 gallons of fuel oil, producing an annual cost savings of more than $8 million.
Smithfield executives presented one President's Award and 12 Environmental Excellence Awards for a variety of project categories that represent a company-wide commitment to sustainability, such as wastewater handling and treatment; environmental training and/or ISO 14001; resource conservation-waste reduction; packaging reduction; best recycling of a previous year's project; community outreach and innovative solutions to a compliance issue.