{"id":4043,"date":"2010-03-11T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2010-03-12T14:36:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:36:32","slug":"tropicana-trying-to-make-a-greener-orange-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/03\/11\/tropicana-trying-to-make-a-greener-orange-juice\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropicana: Trying to Make a Greener Orange Juice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,1971379,00.html?xid=rss-topstories\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4044\" title=\"100312_pepsico\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100312_pepsico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>How green is your orange juice? A couple of years ago, PepsiCo, which owns the orange-juice brand Tropicana, tried to size up the carbon footprint of the popular morning tonic. It found that each half-gallon carton of OJ is responsible for 3.75 lbs. of CO2. What was particularly surprising was where much of that CO2 was coming from. The single biggest contributor to Tropicana&#8217;s carbon footprint wasn&#8217;t the transport of the juice to stores, or the energy required to operate a modern citrus farm. Rather, it was the fertilizer being used to grow the orange trees. A great deal of natural gas is used to make nitrogen fertilizer, and a great deal of fertilizer is used on citrus trees \u2013 so much so that fertilizer accounted for 35%, the largest share, of the carbon footprint of orange juice. &#8220;We thought it might be transport or packaging,&#8221; says Tim Carey, director of sustainability and beverages for PepsiCo. &#8220;But the agricultural aspects of the operation are more important than we expected.&#8221; (See the top 10 green ideas of 2009.). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,1971379,00.html?xid=rss-topstories\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Nigeria |  Company \u2014 Ethical Quote link: <a href=\"..\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/ethicalquote-public\/?value=6\">PepsiCo<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,1971379,00.html?xid=rss-topstories\" target=\"_blank\">Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How green is your orange juice? A couple of years ago, PepsiCo, which owns the orange-juice brand Tropicana, tried to size up the carbon footprint of the popular morning tonic. It found that each half-gallon carton of OJ is responsible for 3.75 lbs. of CO2. What was particularly surprising was where much of that CO2&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pepsico","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}