Greenfern Industries announced yesterday it had been named New Zealand’s first Toitū carbonzero certified medicinal cannabis and industrial hemp company.
Medical cannabis can have a very heavy carbon footprint. For indoor cultivators, there’s significant motivation for getting those emissions down. As much of the carbon footprint can be attributable to energy consumption, it makes financial as well as environmental sense to tackle the issue.
New Zealand’s energy supply is already around 80% renewable, but Greenfern Industries was able to take this further with the hydroelectric power station it owns on the Waingongoro River in Taranaki; situated alongside Greenfern’s research facility, indoor growing operation, and processing facility.
“The highest overhead cost in a medicinal cannabis indoor growing operation is power,” said managing director Dan Casey. “While having access to cost-price power is a game changer for us in terms of how competitive it will make the price of our products, being able to grow our plants in a more environmentally friendly way is just as important to us.”
Greenfern’s other sustainability and waste reduction initiatives include a Bioresource Processing Alliance (BPA) funded project to make better use of hemp seed hulls.
More info on Toitū carbonzero certification here.
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