Some of the steps we take to achieve this goal are:

- Keeping our buildings and offices at an adequate but not exorbitant temperature.  We use digital thermostates to ensure the heat comes on and goes off when necessary.

- Unfortunately there is no recycling or composting services offered in the Wentworth area of Nova Scotia where our packaging plant is located.  So we ensure all cardboard and plastic packaging is brought down to Halifax to be recycled.  As well, all the DE that we use in the filtering process is collected in buckets and transported to Halifax with our regular shipments.  It is then added to our weekly composting pickup.

- Re-using every piece of packaging material possible.  Because of the large volume of packing and shipping we do a large amount of waste is created.  Much of this waste is recycled back into our supply chain in the form of cushioning material for fragile shipments.  If it is unusable we ensure that it is either recycled or composted in a proper manner.

- The Vast majority of the cases we use for packaging our maple jugs in are re-used, some up to 4 times.  This is a great way to reduce the amount of cardboard and all it's carbon inputs that we use.  After a box becomes too damaged we ensure it is recycled.

- There were recently new wind turbines installed on the top of the mountain behind our plant in the Wentworth Valley.  Although Acadian Maple is not associated with the project the transmission line from the turbines comes down the mountain adjacent to our plant.  So it is safe to say much of the power that we use in the heating, processing, pasteurization and packaging of our pure maple syrup is done using green energy from the wind turbines. - We are constantly looking for ways to reduce our environmental footprint.  In planning our future expansions and new buildings we are working hard to incorporate as much technology and design as possible to minimize our use of carbon based energy and maximize our use of renewable clean energy.

    We are continuously trying to decrease our impact on the environment by curbing our energy consumption, recycling wherever possible and educating or valued customers on the environmental benefits of supporting locally produced pure maple syrup.  We thank everyone for their support.