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Article: Mead Johnson Now Using Green Technology to Power Facility.(Company overview)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- June 24, 2009
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Mead Johnson & Company announced that it is now using landfill gas to meet a significant portion of its energy needs at the company's manufacturing facility in Evansville, Ind. The project, which is the first of its kind for Mead Johnson and in the city of Evansville, uses a "green" technology that has been proven safe and reliable (see also Mead Johnson Nutrition Company).
The project has an estimated capacity to reduce net carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions by 24,000 metric tons per year. Annual environmental benefits of this reduction are equivalent to removing greenhouse gas emissions from 4,400 passenger vehicles, the carbon dioxide emissions from ...