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Tropicana Pure Premium orange juice is the first consumer product in the U.S. to obtain a carbon footprint certified by the Carbon Trust. The results found that almost 40 percent of the carbon footprint was from the growing of oranges, with the main contributor associated with the manufacturing process of standard fertilizers.

To reduce the carbon footprint of this product, PepsiCo launched a three-year, 7,200-tree pilot project in Florida in 2010, which is designed to compare low carbon fertilizers with standard fertilizer and measure the impact on tree and soil health and quality of juice.

The first year results look encouraging. As a result of this work, Tropicana plans to
deploy the best fertilizer solutions across their Florida supply base and globally to citrus and other crop production.