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"We have found that renewable energy is one of the easiest and most effective ways to minimize the impact of carbon emissions, and the increased cost of wind over fossil fuel sourced power was minimal, considering the benefit achieved," Cohn says.
Additional environmentally friendly features of the company's facility include: water-use reduction programs; climate-controlled indoor environment; regenerative thermal oxidizers for the destruction of VOCs, HAPs, and odorous emissions; ozone destructor; and on-site plate manufacturing that does not require solvents or water. For its plates, Accredo Packaging uses a thermal platemaking process that reduces overall energy consumption, emissions, and waste. In addition, the platemaking waste rolls are recovered and incinerated off-site for bio-mass energy, displacing fossil fuel use.
