Frito-Lay’s sustainability efforts are starting to pay off. The company reports that it has saved 55 million dollars this year on energy and water costs. Their largest distribution center is in Arizona where last year they installed a 201-kilowatt system that produces 350,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually is the largest business-owned PV system in Arizona.

Frito-Lay has not set the bar low, either. In 1999, Frito-Lay, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PepsiCo, set out to achieve the unimaginable: a corporate-wide manufacturing reduction of consumable resources, including a 50% reduction in water, 30% in natural gas, and 25% in electricity. Nine years later, the company has nearly reached its goals. Without the reductions, “[Frito-Lay] would have spent $55 million more this year on water and energy,” Halvorsen said. “The water savings alone are enough to fill 4,500 Olympic-sized pools.”

Read all about Frito-Lay’s efforts at the Monroe Street Journal