Our Plant’s Commitment

Over 30 Years of Environmental Best Practices

We Reduce:

• Reduce plastics production by changing to thin walled product containers.
• Reduce paper and chemical waste by reducing both size and number of labels used.
• Reduce cardboard production by minimizing cardboard thickness and weight, and redesigning packaging for minimal cardboard use.
• Reduce energy consumption for heating and cooling with new production equipment and methods to reduce energy, while increasing efficiency for superior product quality.
• Reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions by integrating route truck delivery analyses to ensure optimum distribution with minimal environmental impact and reduce truck idling and braking.
• Reduce energy waste and increase efficiency by isolating cooling and incubation areas and allowing these area to return to room temperature when not in use.
• Reduce personal water use with efficient toilets and faucets.

We Recover and Reuse:

• Recover and reuse pallets from distribution.
• Recover waste-water and effluent for treatment and safe disposal (Our wastewater treatment system ensures conformity and return to source of safe and biodegradable waste water).
• Reuse all water used in heating and cooling systems and manufacturing in a closed loop water system.
• Recover and reuse paper in production and in the administration of our business.

We Recycle:
As of Spring 2009, virtually everything that can be recycled is recycled.

• Plastic, including packaging containers, seals and shrink-wrap, milk jugs
• Cardboard received and cardboard reused to its lifecycle end
• Paper, labels
• Aluminum
• Batteries
• Milk byproducts including cream
• Production equipment, light bulbs, metals, wires, etc.

At Olympic, every person on our team takes responsibility for implementing our environmental policies each and every day. It’s an important part of our culture.