Aurora Organic Dairy has reduced its shuttling of products to and from cold storage by 90% by opening a new energy-efficient plant in Platteville, Colo., in 2014. The plant features heat exchangers, low-wattage lighting and more efficient HVAC, according to the company’s Corporate Citizenship Report for 2015.
AOD has reduced water use per half-gallon equivalent of milk by 18% from 2012 to 2014, and this year employees have instituted a process to incorporate pauses in water flow at the gallon jug rinse station, expected to save more than 500,000 gallons per year, the CCR report states.