Our Safety Principles

Tropicana is committed to provide safe and healthy workplaces. Our dedicated health and safety professionals lead comprehensive risk management programs focused on preventing workplace illnesses and injuries.

We design, construct and maintain our operating facilities in a manner to protect our people and physical resources. A clear corporate commitment to safety combined with employee involvement, training and monitoring allow us to continue to improve the safety for our employees and facilities.

All of Tropicana’s plants have earned the Star certification in OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program for facility workplace safety excellence.

Minimizing Packaging Materials

Tropicana is constantly looking for new ways to reduce the weight of its packaging and taking steps to make our packages more recyclable.

These efforts include:

• Regularly reviewing our use of packaging material use to minimize packaging while protecting the high quality of our products.
• We only use environmentally friendly paints in our facilities.
• PepsiCo, our parent company, provides major support to Keep America Beautiful and its leading voluntary anti-litter campaign, the Great American Clean-up. Tropicana was a founding member of Keep Manatee Beautiful in Bradenton and supports efforts of the local affiliates of Keep America Beautiful, where possible.

Use of Renewable Energy

Tropicana's goal is to reduce energy consumption and utilize renewable energy resources where possible. Examples of these efforts include:

• Tropicana is the only U.S. food or beverage company that has a unit train to ship its products to market. The unit train is made entirely of Tropicana railcars and runs daily to New Jersey and several times a week to Cincinnati. Trains are the most energy efficient way to transport our Pure Premium juice to our customers. The rail fleet travels more than 35 million miles in a year.
• All of Tropicana’s 514 refrigerated railcars utilize environmentally friendly refrigerants.
• Our Ft. Pierce, Florida facility uses landfill gas to produce steam. Landfill gas is considered a renewable energy resource and has the impact of reducing natural gas consumption the equivalent of 190,000 barrels of oil or the amount of energy to power 1,400 homes. This benefit will increase as landfill gas availability increases.

Efficient Water Use

• All of our products use water, whether in growing the ingredients for our products, such as oranges, or in the manufacturing of the beverages bearing our name.
• Tropicana’s Resource Conservation program focuses on ways to reduce consumption and increase efficiency of water use.
• The Bradenton, Florida facility captures and reuses about 500,000 gallons of water a day. That’s enough water to supply 1,600 homes.
• The Ft. Pierce, Florida facility's cattle feed process captures and reuses 150,000 gallons of water per day. Enough water to supply 600 homes.

Waste Reduction

Tropicana’s juices are a natural product, minimally processed. This philosophy is reflected in the company’s approach to waste management by reducing waste and reusing or and recycling if possible.

• Each year, Tropicana purchases approximately 30% of Florida’s total orange and grapefruit crop – nearly 4.5 billion pounds of fruit
• Virtually every part of the fruit is used. Once the juice is squeezed from the citrus, the remaining peel and seeds are dried in preparation for use as cattle feed. The result is the efficient utilization of more than 2.3 billion pounds of this by-product each year.
• Valuable oils, essences and biodegradable solvents are extracted from the peel prior to drying. These by-products are then sold or used by the company.
• Tropicana recycles more than 10 million pounds of material including corrugated boxes, scrap metal, paper cartons, plastic bottles, and aluminum cans.

Air Emissions Controls

Tropicana’s facilities burn natural gas in their boilers, electrical co-generation plant and feed mills. Natural gas is considered the cleanest industrial fuel.

Tropicana’s Ft. Pierce facility has partnered with St. Lucie County to burn landfill gas in its boiler. Landfill gas is a renewable energy source, displaces the use of natural gas and provides the equivalent environmental benefit of removing 18,000 cars from the road or planting 25,000 acres of forest. These environmental benefits will increase as availability of landfill gas increases.