Liberty Coca Cola Beverages has their bottling plant in Greenburgh (near the Ice Skating Academy in North Elmsford). Last week the company broke ground for the nation's first quadgeneration production plant. The facility will generate its own electricity, heat, cooling and recover carbon dioxide for beverage use. It's a very exciting initiative. Generating energy using combined heat and power technology will deliver significant carbon savings versus grid sourced electricity. Additionally, recovering CO2 further improves the environmental performance of the system by reducing the need to source it from the market. Once cleaned, the beverage grade CO2 will be used to carbonate beverages, eliminating hundreds of trucks annually that currently deliver it to the facility.
A representative of the company spoke at our recent Town Board meeting. Link below. Also see article from the Business Journal about this impressive initiative. Liberty Coca Cola is challenging all of us to do our part to save our planet.