Ready Pac Foods is doing its part to reduce environmental impact with solar power and recycled plastics. Ongoing efforts to improve their products’ sustainability have kept Ready Pac’s Bistro® Bowl Salads line on track to use more than 56,000,000 recycled plastic beverage bottles this year. The bowls and inserts are produced in plants powered by 50% solar energy. Tristan Simpson, Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications, states, “We have made continuous improvements over time to create a more sustainable bowl salad package, and the net effect is we’re making a significant contribution to helping the environment.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">BC Tree Fruits is updating the cherry line at its Oliver packinghouse in the Okanagan Valley with new equipment. The equipment will allow the company to increase the capacity of cherries it can handle by 66%. Chris Pollock, Marketing Manager, tells AndNowUKnow “Increasing the amount of fruit that can be run across the Oliver line; plus utilizing the existing line at our Kelowna packinghouse, enables us to better serve our domestic market while expanding our business into export markets.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
