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Mars, Inc. Focuses on Green Energy in Waco
As part of a company-wide effort to reduce its environmental footprint around the world, Mars, Inc. is striving to make its operations more sustainable at every level. One of the company’s largest U.S. snack food plants, located in Waco, has converted 60% of its heating fuel source from natural gas to methane gas harvested from the city’s landfill.
With enough supply to power the plant’s boilers for the next 25 years, Mars is significantly reducing its carbon footprint and production costs. Using renewable methane will save the company over half a million dollars a year and will also reduce the plant’s annual greenhouse gas emissions dramatically.
Replacing natural gas with methane rather than other green energy sources provides a double benefit for the city of Waco and the environment, since city landfills account for the second largest source of human-related methane emissions in the U.S.
