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SustainabilityCurrent Practices & Environmental Impact
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Fuel eFFiciency
The amount of high-efficiency lighting is comparable to the acreage of 27 football fields.
• Installationofhigh-efficiency energy curtainsthroughoutourfacility
• Incorporation of radiant heatinour greenhouses,barns,andproductionareas
• Installationandutilizationofnearly thirty acres of high-efficiency lights
Inrecentyears, we have reduced our fuel energy by approximately 50% through the following practices:
Reduced emiSSionS
Fuel consists of tree clearing service waste & pallet disposal.
· 90%reductionofemissionsproducedby naturalgasandoilfuel
· $20Million+•investmentinparticulateremoval technologyexceedsEPAstandardsby95%
The orchid range is heated exclusively by wood-fueled furnaces. The wood boiler system implementation resulted in:
•90% reduction of emissions producedbynaturalgasandoilfuel
•$20million+investmentin particulateremovaltechnology exceeds EPA standards by 95%
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Reduced WaSte
1.5 million plug trays are re-used annually results in close to 1 million pounds of reduction in waste, comparable
to the weight of 4 blue whales.
• Themajorityofretailfinishedpotproduction hasmovedfrominjection-moldedplastics tovacuumformedtechnologies,reducing plastic consumption by over 35%
• We recycle 100% of injection-molded plug traysusedinternally
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SuStainable GRoWinG PRacticeS
IPM has already reduced use of liquid pesticides in the facility by approximately 50%.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) isaneffectiveandenvironmentallysensitiveapproachtopestmanagement.
IPM is used to control pestswiththeleastpossiblehazardtopeople,property,andtheenvironment.
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SuStainable iRRiGation
We collect 1.5 million gallons of water in retention ponds for every 1 inch of rainfall. That is the equivalent of filling
2.5 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Our irrigation system and water run-off is currently 100% self-contained.
Thisensuresthatsignificantamountsofwastewater(typically high in nitrates)donotenterthelocalwatersupplyandnegativelyaffectnaturalhabitat.
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SelF-containment
The average amount of water at any given time in our retention ponds is about 28 million gallons, which would fill:The Georgia Aquarium, the largest US aquarium - 3 times.
· 90%reductionofemissionsproducedby naturalgasandoilfuel
· $20Million+•investmentinparticulateremoval technologyexceedsEPAstandardsby95%
Ebb&Floodgreenhousefloorsprovidethemost efficient use of fertilizers and pesticides.
Allmaterialthatisnotusedbyplantsisreturnedtoholdingtanksandeitherre-usedordisposed of using environmentally safe methods,includingevaporationinself-containedponds.
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