As a company founded and headquartered on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, we consider the Chesapeake Bay and the waters of the Delmarva Peninsula part of our heritage.  That’s why we are proud of the many ways we are helping to protect and restore our waterways.

• Phytase, an enzyme added to our feed formulations, reduces phosphorus in chicken manure by 25%.
• Perdue AgriRecycle is the industry’s first large-scale alternative to land application of poultry litter. The plant, a $13 million investment in protecting the environment, processes surplus poultry litter from Delmarva farms into pasteurized, organic fertilizer products.  In 2008, Perdue AgriRecycle relocated an estimated 4 million pounds of nitrogen, 3 million pounds of phosphorus and 3 million pounds of potassium.
• The Perdue Clean Waters Environmental Initiative, an historic and industry-leading partnership between Perdue and the EPA, is helping independent contract producers growing for Perdue protect our nation’s waters while reducing the environmental impact of our operations.  Under the program, Perdue, EPA and other partners provide training, assistance and environmental assessments to farmers raising chickens for Perdue’s processing operations to help them enhance their compliance with environmental regulations.
• The Poultry Integrators’ Nutrient Effort (P.I.N.E.), a successful partnership between Perdue and the Center for the Inland Bays, among others, has worked since 2001 to maintain the quality of Delaware waterways. The P.I.N.E. project assisted with the planning and development of processes aimed at reducing nutrient loads into Delaware’s waterways and the creation of model farms to demonstrate practical practices that are beneficial to water quality and neighbor relations. The P.I.N.E. project is highlighted as a case example in the Global Environmental Management Initiative and the Environmental Defense Fund’s “Guide to Successful Corporation/NGO Partnerships.”
• Perdue actively participates in Chesapeake Bay protection and restoration organizations, holding volunteer leadership positions with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Nanticoke Watershed Alliance and the Oyster Recovery Partnership. 
• Participating for the second year, in April 2009 more than 130 Perdue associates and their families participated in Project Clean Stream, a project of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay to clean up six sites in Wicomico County, Md., and Accomack County, Va. Volunteers removed more than 5,400 pounds of debris from area waterways and shorelines. 

For more information on Perdue’s Environmental Sustainability initiatives, visit http://www.perdue.com/company/commitments/stewardship/index.html.  

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