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What if a food item is produced nearby (say at a processing plant) but the ingredients aren’t sourced locally. Does that count towards the 100-mile regional criteria?

Can our project earn this credit with just a one-time purchase of food for an event in the building?

We have several tenants in our building. Do we have to track food purchases from all of them? What if they won't give us their purchasing data?

Do we have to include food and beverages that are purchased for our vending machines?

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EBOM-2009 MRc5:Sustainable Purchasing—Food

coca cola

Would coca cola bottles be considered regional if the bottling plant is within the required distance?

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Trista Brown
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Fri, 03/21/2014 - 18:40

Good question. A product can only be considered regional if the individual ingredients are also harvested within 100 miles. In this case, the sugar cane, etc would need to meet that requirement in order to qualify. Beverages are particularly difficult to get credit for under MRc5 through the regional option!

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 18:52

I thougth so. And besides, coca cola may not be that healthy either...

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