Caring For The Planet

Sustainable Florida Standards Pledge

Taking the Sustainable Florida Standards Pledge demonstrates Orchid Island Juice Company’s ongoing effort to assess our effectiveness, efficiency, impact on the environment and how our practices improve the quality of life in the communities where we conduct business.
Sustainable Florida Standards
1. Mission Statement: To unite our individual gifts from God in establishing Orchid Island Juice Company [...]

Planet OIJC

Natalie’s Orchid Island Juice Company champions causes that improve the lives of people and honor this precious earth. For twenty years, this family owned business has provided nonprofit organizations along the Treasure Coast of Florida with citrus juice and other resources for their outreach programs and fundraising events. Resources are also distributed to the world community to assist [...]

Energy Saver!

Natalie’s Orchid Island Juice Company’s Frank Martinelli, Director of Operations (L), and Bil Martinelli, Chief Engineer, are pictured with the Energy Saver Award, which was presented by the U.S. Department of Energy. Recipients of the award are evaluated for procedural systems that conserve energy, minimize waste and reduce overall costs of operations. An analysis of the [...]

Indian River Lagoon Clean Up

About 1000 volunteer divers and environmentalists spent several weekends in July cleaning up the Indian River Lagoon for the 2nd Annual Treasure Coast Waterway Cleanup. This precious resource is a 125-mile, brackish water estuary spawning the most diverse marine life in the Northern Hemisphere.

Several tons of trash were collected from the cleanup effort, which entailed volunteers picking up trash along coastal [...]

ORANGE IS THE NEW GREEN!

Orchid Island Juice Company is continuously looking for new and innovative ways to minimize our carbon footprint on the planet. Combined with our contributions to a multitude of efforts to clean up the environment and our support of conservation research, we have implemented our own programs to REDUCE, RE-USE and RECYCLE.
REDUCE
Waste minimization is both a process and a [...]

Environmental Excellence!

Frank Martinelli (center), Director of Operations for Natalie’s Orchid Island Juice Company, receives the 2008 Platinum Circle of Honor Award for Environmental Stewardship from the city of Ft. Pierce, Florida. Martinelli is flanked by William Thiess (left), Director of Utilities, and Mark Mathis (right), Pre-Treatment Coordinator. The award was issued to only five businesses in [...]