ecoBiz Partner Biography
Family Fresh Fruit Salad is a Yatala based food manufacturer specialising in tubs of fruit salad. With the assistance of an ecoBiz rebate Family Fresh built a new eco-efficient facility incorporating structural building and process design to increase the shelf life of their product. The project (PDF, 160K)* incorporated wastewater treatment, solar powered water heaters and a new waste sorting process, which allows food waste to be sorted separately and then on sold to farmers as cattle feed.
Annual Savings:
- Energy 43% (14 Queensland homes or 767,902 MJ )
- Greenhouse Gas 38% (44 cars or 181.1 t CO2-e)
- Potable water 57% (1 Olympic swimming pool or 2,546 kL)
- Waste disposal 67% (14,267 wheelie bins or 3,424 m3)
- Efficiency savings $79,039
Savings as at June 2010
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Last updated 22 December 2011