Ocean Mist Farms’ energy efficient cooling facility in Castroville, Calif.
Ocean Mist Farms is taking steps to improve its carbon footprint by saving energy, reducing waste and preventing pollution at all levels of our business. Below are some examples of our recent efforts that are having a positive impact.
We use highly efficient variable speed motors on our refrigeration fans, ammonia condensers, farm sump pumps and irrigation booster pumps. Variable speed motors use 60 percent less energy to run than standard motors. We’ve also installed energy efficient LED lighting in our facilities. That saves 150 tons of CO2 annually. That’s the equivalent of removing 29 passenger cars from the road per year.
We conserve fuel by maintaining and servicing equipment efficiently to maximize life and by replacing older, less efficient equipment with new technologies that have less emission. GPS- (Global Positioning System) enabled equipment also conserves fuel and human energy by minimizing overlap. Our annual fuel savings is equivalent to removing 1,033 passenger cars from the road each year.
We are diverting 46.2 tons of waste materials to recycling, the equivalent of removing 24 passenger cars from the road each year!
