Saturday, November 17, 2007

Frito-Lay Goes Net-Zero: The World Is Changing

No...this isn't a post brought to you by some Fortune 500 Companies.

Just a way to acknowledge interesting things where you find them:

First it was Wal-Mart putting up green buildings. Then Toyota beginning to green car-making facilities.

Now it's Frito-Lay running 500,000 pounds of potatoes a day through a mere mid-size plant in Arizona that utilizes state-of-the-art energy inputs, plus water conservation and and multiple levels of recycling - - something approximating zero energy use annually.

Now if they could just get the saturated fat out of the chips...

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