Frito Lay Canada

• Reduced our electricity consumption by more than 20% since 1999 for every kilogram of snacks we produce.
• Reduced our manufacturing fuel consumption by over 20% since 1999 per kilogram of snacks produced.
• Reduced our water consumption by 30% since 1999, saving 5.4 billion litres of water through changes in our manufacturing plants.
• Diverted more than 92% of our manufacturing waste from landfills into beneficial re-use streams in 2009.
• Leveraged heat recovery systems at all of our plants which capture waste heat from the exhaust of manufacturing line. The collected heat is used to dry starch, heat water or oil and warm buildings, which reduces overall energy consumption in each facility.
• Reused approximately 40 million shipping cartons since 1999.

With one of the largest private fleets in Canada, we are continuously working to find ways to optimize our delivery routes. We have begun rolling out lighter-weight and more efficient Sprinter vehicles into our fleet. Through route optimizations we have been able to remove vehicles from the road while being one of the fastest growing consumer packaged goods companies in Canada.

In 2009 we opened a new "green" distribution centre facility in Surrey, British Colombia. This distribution centre was constructed to be a LEED Silver (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Designs) facility and serves as a model for the rest of our facilities through innovations in green power, alternative lighting, energy efficiency standards and environmentally-conscious construction choices. As we make improvements to the rest of our sites, we anticipate that this will be the first of many to earn LEED certification.

In March 2010, the SunChips^® brand is introducing the world's first 100% compostable chip bag of its kind across North America. Instead of using non-renewable materials to make our SunChips^®  packaging, we will begin producing SunChips^® multigrain chips in bags made from more than 90% renewable, plant-based materials. This new SunChips^® package will completely break down into compost in a hot, active home or industrial compost pile. For more information, please visit www.sunchips.ca.

Frito Lay Canada is proud to be recognized for our environmental contributions:

• We were honoured with the 2009 CIPEC (Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation) Leadership Award for Corporate Stewardship. Click here to read the press release.
• We received the 2009 Green Supply Chain Award from Transport Canada and Supply Chain Logistics Canada. Click here to read the press release.
• Frito Lay Canada's Lethbridge site was awarded the 2009 CCME (Canadian Council of Ministers of Environment) Pollution Prevention Award for the Medium Business Category. Click here to read the press release.
• Frito Lay Canada's Western Canada Manufacturing team was awarded the Industrial Recycler of the Year Award for 2008 from the Alberta Recycling Council. Click here to read the press release.