Cadbury cuts emissions

Natural Health, May, 2008 by Stacy Adimando

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Cadbury Schweppes, the world's largest candy and beverage company (its brands include Green & Black's chocolate, Snapple, and Halls cough drops), is cutting its emissions by 50 percent by the year 2020. The company will produce 750,000 fewer tons of gases each year by powering its plants with cleaner energy sources, like natural gas and even sugar cane (which gets converted into steam). Cadbury's facility in Claremont, Tasmania, already runs on hydroelectric energy, and a plant in Karachi, Pakistan, is heated with solar power. The company will also switch to 100 percent recyclable or biodegradable packaging by 2010.