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| Solar Panels at Frito-Lay's Casa Grande plant in Arizona (source: Frito-Lay) |
Already known as the company that makes chips and snacks, Frito-Lay is now also the company with one of the greenest manufacturing facilities in the U.S.
Named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for its plan to move all 32 of its plants to zero-waste status, the snack company just completed an even more ambitious project: a near-ZNE plant. The Arizona plant dubbed Casa Grande, which will produce Lays, Tostitos, SunChips, Cheetos and more, features a water-recovery system that allows the plant to recycle 75 per cent of its water, a five megawatt solar photovoltaic system and a solar shade parking structure.
The same energy and efficiency technologies are currently being used piece-meal at various other Frito-Lay plants, but this is the first time Frito-Lay is putting them all together in one plant.
Read more on this new near-ZNE project here.
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