Over the past six years, the company has launched various environmentally-friend innovations not only in their manufacturing methods, but also in packaging, transportation and waste reduction – all of which have cut costs by a whopping $24 million. Today, Stonyfield Farm is helping its suppliers and business partners do the same and has launched a program to create small, transportable processing plants at banana cooperative in Costa Rica so that growers can minimize their wastes by 50% and at the same time augment their profit. The project was patterned after Stonyfield’s parent company, Danone Group, which makes sustainable development the core of its operations.