Since I love potato chips I chose Lays potato chips:
It all starts in the rich soil of an American farm, like Black Gold Potato, in North Dakota. Frito-Lay's standards for the quality of the corn and potatoes are among the highest in the food industry, so farmers make sure that our ingredients are planted, grown and harvested with the utmost attention to detail and quality. After potatoes arrive at a nearby Frito-Lay plant, they're washed, peeled, cut into slices and rinsed to clear off any excess starch. Next, they're cooked in all-natural oils like sunflower oil and corn oil, then sprinkled with salt or seasoning to become America’s favorite potato chips. It doesn't take much to make a simple snack taste great.
Their Steps to a Healthier Planet
They have been taking steps to reduce their impact on the earth by taking some steps like the ones mentioned below:
Solar power is used at one of their plants in Modesto, CA to help make Sun Chips snacks. (2008)
All Frito-Lay plants are currently working toward “zero landfill” with the goal of diverting at least 99% of waste from landfills. (2009)
Introduced 1,000 new Sprinter trucks that get 50% more miles per gallon than the trucks they replaced. (2009)
At our Casa Grande, AZ plant they are working to cut their electricity and water by 90%. According to their website by early 2011, they’ll complete the retrofit to enable our Casa Grande plant to run almost entirely on renewable energy and recycled water while reducing waste going to the landfill to less than 1%.
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