Your Green Review

Company Name: Paw Naturaw

Company Type: Privately Owned

URL/Location: www.PawNaturaw.com

Contact Information: Info@PawNaturaw.com

Can This Company Provide Facility Tours?

Paw Naturaw is unable to provide tours at this time.

Company Description:

America’s first lines of USDA certified organic, raw, frozen or dehydrated diets for dog companions.

Sustainable Business Practices:

Sustainable Production Methods

• Solely support domestic certified organic ingredients
• Contains meats raised in support of cruelty free practices and with biologically appropriate feed
• Supports sustainable organic agriculture
• Paw Naturaw aligns itself with family farmers that follow the prohibitive rules organic offers yet choose to raise their animals on pastures for the entirety of their lives

Sustainable Facilities:

• Paw Naturaw owns its USDA voluntarily inspected manufacturing facility designed solely for producing organic, forzen, raw diets
• Manufacturing facility was newly constructed in January 2007 to LEED specifications.
• Recycled heat emitted from our freezer and cooler into the floor heating system
• Driveway, turnaround and doc area feature pervious load bearing grass pavers  which allows water to seep organically into ground water supplies instead of blacktop which creates a build-up of unfiltered run-off water.
• Energy saving lights
• Water saving toilets
• Energy efficient air conditioning
• Light colored roofing on plant and offices reflects sunlight for more consistent internal temperature control.
• R-33 insulation factor in walls surround the building in efficiency
• R-40 insulation factor in the ceiling prevents cool or warm air from escaping
• Employee parking area recycles brick from Jefferson, Wisconsin’s historic downtown Main Street

Resource Conservation:

• Paw Naturaw owns and preserves wetland acres on site
• Uses reusable cloth trash bags within our offices and reception area
• Refuses to waste paper and other resources by blanketing communities with target or product questionnaires
• Aquires pre-owned office and manufacturing furnishing
• Company in-house materials use scrap paper as much as possible (including free sides of incoming junk mail).
• Uses recycled paper and employs dual sided printing
• Bike rack and internal fuel reduction incentives encourage employees to conserve natural resources
• Prints materials with soy ink
• Proactively seeks materials that emit minimal levels of volatile organic compounds (VOC’s)

Social Responsibility:

• Paw Naturaw dones a sum equaling 2% of its net profit to a charity with similar values
• Each Earth Day, April 22, we plant two new trees and encourage others to do the same to help offset our carbon footprints

Sustainable Packaging Materials:

• Boxed in recyclable materials
• Lables made of PLA (polylactic acid), a film made entirely from corn kernels

Certifications and Methods of Compliance:

USDA, MOSA Certified Organic meats, organs, fruits and vegetables:

• No pesticides, herbicides or fungicides
• No hormones
• No antibiotics
• No preservatives or artificial additives
• No heavy metals
• No GMO’s

Full Ingredient Disclosure:

View Paw Naturaw’s full product ingredient lists HERE.