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Company is also committed to reducing GHG emissions across its value chain by 24% per kg of milk processed by 2031.

Packaging is essential to maintaining and protecting the quality of the cheese product as well as attracting the eye of consumers. The Center for Dairy Research is investigating methods to produce bioplastics from dairy waste and looking into producing pure lactic acid, a renewable and biodegradable bioplastic, from the biofermentation of cheese whey.

Like a car being made in an automotive assembly plant, the technology and equipment used to get — and track — real-time dairy data has improved tremendously over time.

An emissions reduction of more than 70 percent is expected this year from the initial EV routes, versus the same shipments on diesel trucks.

To spur progress toward the net-zero goal, TCCA set its own interim goal of 30% reduction in absolute emissions by 2030.

NSM and TCCA will each provide $15,000 to plant approximately five acres of native, woody vegetation on regional dairy farms within the TCCA cooperative.