Opportunities for Reducing Cost and Intensity of Waste Production in the Australian Dairy Processing Sector

Australian dairy processors are striving towards improved sustainability and corporate responsibility though reduced waste organic and solid/ packaging related material. As part of this, they have voluntarily committed to reduction targets with respect to a number of environmental indicators through their participation in the Australian Dairy Industry’s Sustainability Framework. This study is intended to assist dairy processors in the task of achieving these targets by providing information about emerging technologies that have potential to assist dairy processors in their pursuit of reducing the economic and environmental cost of disposing organic and solid/packaging-related material.