Landfill Free by 2025 | Candy Road Desserts

There’s extra behind out desserts than wonderful components. There’s a heartfelt dedication to our planet, our neighborhood and our folks. 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 vitality crops, the bakery’s waste stream shall be transformed to biodiesel gas and all remaining supplies shall 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 Gas Customary. Renewable diesel, additionally known as “inexperienced diesel,” is distinct from biodiesel. (https://afdc.vitality.gov)

We recycle cardboard, aluminum, metallic, plastics and all paper. Fairly 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 gasoline and reduces emissions. By doing so, we decreased our waste hauling by practically 1000 tons over 2 years. We’re aggressively working towards our aim, 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 no 1 or 6. Now we have decreased the dimensions of our packaging, and our mailing carton is created from recycled materials. In actual fact, 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 vitality conservation mindset. We’re continuously taking a look at methods to scale back our environmental footprint. Latest initiatives have included putting in variable frequency drives to scale back fan speeds the place attainable (electrical energy discount), automating cooling tower operation to raised management water utilization (water discount) and using warmth dissipated by our product cooling system to warmth our plant water yr spherical.

Learn extra about our social and environmental duty right here.