ConAgra Foods and Forgotten Harvest, a food rescue organisation in the US, won the Gold Edison Green Award, the top award in this category, chosen from entries from multiple industries.
This award is designed as a platform to recognise efforts by an organisation to reduce participating communities’ carbon footprint, create Green Collar jobs through new innovation methods and improve community health and self-sufficiency.
Gail Tavill, vice president of sustainable development for ConAgra Foods, said: “This project preserves the environmental investment in all of the materials that go into making Slim Jims, instead of having some of them go to waste. It feeds hungry people, reduces waste and avoids disposal costs – a true triple-win project.”
ConAgra Foods won silver in the food category for Orville Redenbacher’s Pop Up Bowl. The bag-to-bowl design pops into a ready-to-serve, free-standing bowl for snacking, sharing and easier clean-up, according to the company.
Source: ConAgra Foods
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