Environmental Responsibility

Environmental Responsibility

As citizens of the community and of the greater world – with families, friends and children who live, work and play here – Crunch Pak takes its environmental responsibilities very seriously. Here are a few of the steps we take each day to ensure a safe and happy future:

• Reducing the thickness of our clamshell packaging by 10% saves more than 26 tons of packaging annually. We have also reduced the thickness of single-serve bags by 20%.

• Redesigning our shipping cartons to use more recycled post-consumer corrugate keeps more than 29 tons of paperboard out of landfills annually.

• Additionally, our use of recycled post-consumer corrugate in shipping cartons shrinks our carbon footprint by:

- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 111 tons per year.

- Reducing water use by more than 1 million gallons per year.

• Recycling of apple waste products in biomass generators, cattle feedlots and compost production keeps 500,000 pounds of material out of local landfills each week.
• By supporting the growth of the largest organic apple growers in the U.S., we help reduce the amount of petroleum-based pesticides and fertilizers used.

• The installation of high-speed electric doors in our cold storage facilities dramatically reduces electricity usage.

• Upgrades to high-efficiency cooling units reduces electricity usage throughout 65,000 square feet of cold storage space.

• Conversion to high-efficiency water nozzles, along with additional water conservation plans, reduces water usage by more than 3.7 million gallons annually.

• Efficient reconfiguration of the way we stack our pallets in trucks reduces our carbon footprint for shipping by 35%.

• Use of recycled post-consumer plastic (PET) significantly reduces the amount of raw materials and energy needed to produce the same amount of virgin PET. In a study of one customer’s packaging (Costco), these energy and resource savings are equivalent to:

- Removing 46 cars from the road for a year.

- Planting 67 acres of trees.

- Powering 11 households for a day.