Chicagoland residents, rejoice — if you buy produce distributed by Testa Produce, it now comes with an (officially) lower carbon footprint, as per recent LEED Platinum certification for the company’s distribution center in the Chicago Stockyards Industrial Park by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
As we reported back in May, the company’s 91,000-square-foot warehouse distribution center makes use of a 750kW wind turbine, as well as a partially vegetated roof, solar panels that provide for 100 percent of the building’s hot water needs and a sophisticated water reclamation and treatment system. These systems, combined with other energy efficient features, save the company 60 percent of the energy that would normally be consumed by a facility of this type and size.
