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We recently attended the Net Impact Conference in Portland, Ore., a collaboration of people and companies who do social and environmental good. We were there on the tradeshow floor to discuss our social responsibility efforts and the launch of smithfieldcommitments.com with attendees. Read More
In the past few months, Smithfield and our independent operating companies have sponsored many World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) events. This year we distributed 200 sampling kits and had over 750 participants! Sampling events were held across the country, including events in Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Kansas, Illinois, North Carolina, Minnesota, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, and Utah. We also had multiple events sponsored in Poland and Romania! World Water Monitoring Day reported that worldwide they had participation from over 200,000 people in 85 countries. Read More
Each year we give Environmental Excellence Awards to projects and initiatives by our facilities that both help the environment and save money. On September 14, 2010, we held our annual Environmental Excellence Awards banquet during our Environmental Training Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. Over 100 representatives of Smithfield Foods, John Morrell, Smithfield Packing Company, Farmland Foods, and Murphy-Brown attended. This year’s theme was “Sustainability in Focus.” Dennis Treacy, our chief sustainability officer, and Bob Toy, director of environmental for Union Pacific, both spoke about the importance of sustainability for today’s companies. Read More
At Environment Virginia, we gave out ham biscuits at our booth. Delicious!
Folks from our Smithfield Packing plant in Smithfield, VA took a couple hours to clean up the road on which the plant is located. They picked up over 900 lbs of garbage!
What a great conference at VMI in Lexington, VA!
Smithfield Packing was proud to receive an Environmental Excellence Award at Smithfield's annual internal awards banquet. Smithfield Packing was honored with this award for their hard work in wastewater handling and treatment - specifically their innovative re-capturing of hot water at a plant to be re-used for other purposes.
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