Cargill is a food processor and manufacturer with facilities world-wide. Every year, the company refines operations to help reduce its overall environmental footprint.
Cargill’s business operations include a world-class meat packaging facility in Toronto with 800 highly-skilled workers producing quality products for the company’s grocery retail partners.
Cargill became a member of Ontario’s Environmental Leaders program on May 17, 2006. The company takes this designation very seriously by committing to lessen its environment impact by reducing:
- emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) and Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) through improved energy efficiency measures
- water consumption by 10 per cent
- used oil generated by five per cent
- amount of organic matter entering wastewater by 20 per cent.
Cargill is fully committed to learning more, refining its systems and moving closer to the goal of reducing its environmental footprint at all its facilities world-wide. For example, Cargill’s citric acid plant in Brazil implemented the first anaerobic reactor in South America, which makes wastewater pure enough to drink and is a pioneering device accelerating the biodegradation of waste from 100 days to 70 hours. This waste is now used as a fertilizer at orange plantations.
Protecting our water, air, soil and vegetation are key priorities, and the company believes that with increased innovation, creativity, and teamwork we can revitalize and restore our natural resources and surroundings.
