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    Home » Keywords » sustainable practices in dairy industry

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    kathie canning editors memo

    Sustainability efforts going beyond the dairy plant doors

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    Kathie Canning
    April 6, 2021
    Conversations tied to dairy processor sustainability typically focus on plant-level efforts such as wastewater reduction or reuse, energy-efficiency-minded improvements and recyclable product packaging.
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    Gail Barnes
    Slimming down

    How to create a more sustainable gallon jug for milk

    3 ways to a slimmer jug are: light-weighting through container design; adding calcium carbonate as a filler to replace virgin HDPE; and light-weighting plus optimizing for calcium carbonate filler.
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    Dr. Gail Barnes
    December 10, 2013

    An integrated design approach appears to be the next frontier for the fluid milk market, where the minimum input is used to get the maximum use of materials at the end. This can only come about by the value chain working together, namely raw materials suppliers, equipment manufacturers, e.g. of blow molding equipment, distribution equipment manufacturers, e.g. of crate packing equipment, processors/brand owners and retailers.


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    Alternative energy

    Cheesemaker turns waste whey into energy

    A Wisconsin cheese producer is utilizing a two-stage digestion process to convert its high-strength waste to biogas while reducing the cost and liability associated with using land application methods to handle its high-strength wastes.
    August 1, 2013

    Anaerobic treatment technologies are a cost-effective means of managing high-strength organic wastes, while avoiding expensive treatment costs imposed by municipalities and contending with increasingly strict environmental regulations


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    2013 US Dairy sustainability award winners
    Sustainability

    Unilever Ice Cream, Ballard Family Dairy & Cheese honored in dairy sustainability awards program

    Unilever has reduced electricity use by 13%, natural gas use by 16% and water consumption by more than 1.1 million gallons per year.
    April 24, 2013

    The Unilever Ice Cream plant in Henderson, Nev., was recognized for Outstanding Dairy Processing & Manufacturing Sustainability and Ballard Family Dairy & Cheese, Gooding, Idaho, was honored for Outstanding Achievement in Energy Efficiency.


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    Tetra Pak - Gemina Aseptic with Helicap
    Carbon footprint

    Global recycling of used Tetra Pak cartons increased by 10% in 2012

    Tetra Pak packages with bio-based polymer caps derived from sugar cane grew to 610 million in 2012. Nestlé and Coca-Cola are among the first companies to use these packages in South America.
    April 3, 2013

    In 2012 alone, carton recycling expanded to nearly 8 million households. Tetra Pak is investing tens of millions of euros to promote consumer awareness and work with local municipalities in its drive to increase recycling rates around the world. 


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    Foremost Farms USA SmartWay
    Smart trucking

    Foremost Farms USA stays competitive with sustainable shipping practices

    A company executive says 'we needed to curtail our diesel usage but then came the million-dollar question—how?'
    February 25, 2013

    Over a period of three years, Foremost Farms reduced its value for gallons of diesel per ton of milk hauled by three-tenths of a gallon. That’s $800,000 a year when diesel is at $4.00/gallon.


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    Tom Crave, Charles Crave, George Crave and Mark Crave

    Crave Brothers make a ‘green’ cheese

    October 10, 2012
    Crave Brothers, a family-owned and-operated dairy farm and cheese factory tucked away in Waterloo, Wis., is garnering attention with its award-winning farmstead cheeses and green story.
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