_{Florida Crystals®} Carbonfree_® Natural Sugars offer premium sweeteners to environmentally-conscious partners, who care about sustainability and eco-friendly practices and require bulk ingredients.

Why choose Carbonfree_®?
We are all responsible for carbon dioxide emissions, through our lifestyles and the products and services we buy. Every activity, product or service has its own carbon footprint -- a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases (specifically carbon dioxide) produced.
One of the things we can do to reduce our carbon emissions is support companies that have certified their products as Carbonfree_®.

 

ECCM determined each product’s complete carbon footprint by assessing the primary inputs of planting and growing the sugar cane, through the harvesting, milling and packaging processes, to the product’s final delivery to store shelves. The Carbonfree_® label indicates each product’s carbon footprint was rendered neutral through greenhouse gas cutting measures, specifically, through Florida Crystals' production of renewable energy.

The Carbonfree_® product certification entails four main steps:

What makes Florida Crystals Carbonfree_® certification unique?
 
Florida Crystals certification is unique; unlike other manufacturers who rely on the purchase of carbon credits from third parties, we were able to supply our product’s carbon neutrality through our own production of renewable energy.
 
We have been operating our renewable energy facility for a decade. It is the largest of its kind in North America and produces clean energy that powers our sugar operations and tens of thousands of homes. By generating renewable energy using sugar cane and wood waste instead of fossil fuels, we prevent hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere each year. Florida Crystals also reduces foreign oil dependence by one million barrels per year.