Irish mushroom company, Monaghan Mushrooms, presented their environmental initiatives to senior executives at the Future in Food event in Dublin, November 2014.

1. Donna McKenna
Environmental Manager

2. Agenda
our companyMonaghan Mushrooms:
our products
our process
Future in Food: environmental sustainability
what have we done?
success through sustainability
what happens next?
Thank You

3. Monaghan Mushrooms
No. 1 Mushroom Substrate Producer
No. 2 Fresh Mushroom Producer
Monaghan Mushrooms is one of the
world’s largest and most progressive
fresh mushroom companies.
 29 locations worldwide
 3,800 employees
 41 nationalities
 1.65 million kg mushrooms weekly

4. Mushroom Substrate
• Straw bales dunked
• Blended with:
 Horse manure
 Poultry manure
 Gypsum
 Amm. sulphate
• Phase 1 bunker process
Transferred
11-12 days
• Phase 2 tunnel process
 Pasteurisation
 6 days
• Spawning
• Phase 3 process
 Spawn run
 15 – 16 days
 Dispatch

5. Mushroom Growing
• Shelves filled with substrate, layered with peat
• Controlled & monitored environmental conditions
• Mycelium develops into pins, pins into mushrooms
• Grown in flushes; 1st flush 16 – 17 days after casing
• Hand-picked ‘one touch’ technique
Grown indoors, all year round

6. Mushroom Packing
Products are:
 scanned for foreign objects
 graded to customer specification
 weighed, wrapped, packed
Product is loaded onto 40ft
containers and dispatched
to our customer depots
75 lorries depart our pack houses daily

7. Monaghan Mushroom Products
White Mushroom
Portabello Mushroom
Organic MushroomForestiere® Mushroom
Chestnut Mushroom

8. Environmental Sustainability
Environmental
protection is
essential and it is
expected
Monaghan Mushrooms
continuously strive to
incorporate sustainability into
all avenues of the business
 Raw materials
 Manufacturing processes
 Social sustainability
What have we done?

9. Energy Management
-11% -17% -14%
Substrate
Production
Mushroom
Growing
Mushroom
Packing
100%
Green
• Fancom systems
• Heating / cooling batteries
• Cascade heating system
• Low energy lighting

10. Water Management
 surface rainfall
 building rainfall
 run-off capture
100%
Water Harvesting
Automatic Watering Systems
Control of - water application
- water usage
- optimum conditions

11. Odour Management
 Raw materials hall
 Mixing hall
 Phase 1 bunkers
 Forced aeration
 Covered, aerated tank
 Scrubbers / Biofilter

12. Biodiversity

13. Research & Development Centre
R&D
Centre
Compost,
Casing &
Microbiology
Food Science &
Technology
Biosciences
raw materials
quality
monitoring
new systems
improving
sustainabilitytechnologies
sciences
engineering
developing

14. Health & Nutrition
Mushrooms
are a vitamin
heavyweight
One portion of
mushrooms
counts as one of
your 5 a day
One portion of mushrooms
contains over 3g of high
quality protein
Mushrooms are a
source of many
essential minerals;
Potassium,
Selenium, Copper
Mushrooms contain natural
compounds called ‘statins’ –
inhibiting the absorption of
bad cholesterol
All your daily Vitamin D
requirements in just
one portion
New product launched 6th September 2014
Vitamin D Mushrooms

15. MM in the Community
Giving
Back
Fundraising
Sponsorship
Donations
Opportunities

16. Success through Sustainability
 International client base
 Supply 5 of the world’s top 10 food retailers
 Leading mushroom company in the UK
 UK is Europe’s largest fresh mushroom market

17. What happens next?
Origin Green
 Plan submitted, awaiting approval
 6 main target areas;
o Mushroom packaging
o Peat usage
o Waste
o Biodiversity
o Energy
o Social Sustainability
Opportunity
Success
Future
Future

18. Thank you
Donna McKenna
Monaghan Mushrooms
Tyholland
Co. Monaghan
d.mckenna@monaghan-mushrooms.com