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Stonyfield Farm presents the first program in North America to naturally decrease global warming gases caused by cows’ burps (enteric emissions) has been announced by environmental pioneer Stonyfield Farm, the world’s leading organic yogurt company. An unexpected benefit of the program is that it also significantly increases the nutritional value of the milk.
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Gary talks about how he wants other companies to be able to learn from Stonyfield Farm's experience as an environmental pioneer.
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By contrast, PLAs are made from plants, says Nancy Hirshberg, Stonyfield's VP of Natural Resources. The lactic acid in Stonyfield's PLAs is made from Midwest-grown corn.
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Nancy Hirshberg, Stonyfield's VP of Natural Resources, says that the feedstock recovery process, by which PLAs are recycled, "holds enormous potential for this product ... At some point, we'll be able to continuously make this packaging out of the old packaging without downcycling."
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Nancy Hirshberg, Stonyfield's VP of Natural Resources, explains that most containers made from conventional plastics are not recycled back into their original forms: The functionality of the plastic degrades with each reprocessing. Feedstock recovery of PLA enables it to be fully recycled, not downcycled. Eventually, Stonyfield will recover lactic acid from used cups rather than make PLA from virgin corn.
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