<p><strong>Irwindale, CA</strong><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Ready Pac Foods’ sustainability program is gaining momentum as consumers increasingly look to environmentally friendly companies for their produce.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Tristan Simpson, Director of Marketing at Ready Pac, states, “For decades, Ready Pac has participated in environmentally friendly business practices such as sending our byproducts for use as animal feed. We added the criteria of social responsibility and economic value to our sustainability plans, and the combined program is yielding outstanding results.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Ready Pac’s revenue-generating recycling program allows it to maintain competitive pricing by focusing on reduction of trash sent to landfills and setting up color-coded material collecting stations throughout its plants. Between savings and income generation, the recycling program contributes over $1 million each year and includes cardboard, plastics, paper, and metals.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">To keep waste out of landfills, Ready Pac sells fruit and vegetable byproducts to local dairy farmers to keep the cost of cattle feed down—helping consumers and the local economy. Last year, Ready Pac sold over 110 million pounds of fruit and vegetable byproducts to local farmers.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The company also created a centralized production scheduling system to consolidate production runs, reduce days of operation, and radically reduce utility consumption. Ms. Simpson adds.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Through careful planning, Ready Pac sells most of the products it makes to retail and foodservice customers, and donates useable product it can’t sell to local food banks and charities. Over half a million bags and trays of produce were donated last year.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.readypac.com/" target="_new"> Ready Pac</a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
