Cavendish Farms unveils new Bio-Gas Facility

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NEW ANNAN, PEI, June 19 /PRNewswire/ - Cavendish Farms, one of North America's leading producers of frozen potato products, today unveiled a critical vital new element in their environmental action plan, and a first for the potato industry in North America.

"Today we are proud to unveil our Bio-Gas Facility as an example of our corporate approach to researching, investing and implementing innovative new ways that we can create sustainable and environmentally friendly processing methodologies," Robert Irving, President of Cavendish Farms said at the official opening of the new plant. "This is the first facility in the potato industry to take solid potato waste and convert it into usable energy."....

This marks the single biggest reduction in greenhouse gases on the Island. Among the many environmental benefits the new plant will help achieve are: 30-35% reduction in the overall carbon footprint of the potato processing plants; a reduced dependence on fossil fuel used to power the boilers in the processing plants (about 10 million liters per year); fewer trucks required to bring fuel to the plant; the elimination of the need for trucks to remove potato waste from the plant, (reducing the trucking requirements of the processing plants operation by 1450 KM per day) ; and the creation of an organic, natural fertilizer that can be used on fields in place of potato waste.

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