Saving the equivalent of 4.5 million bottles of milk at Arla Foods

Arla Foods UK supplies a full range of fresh dairy products to the major retailers and foodservice customers, such as Cravendale, Anchor, Lurpak and Tickler.

The intervention team led by Keivan Zokaei began by looking at waste at a very high level through the creation of a mass balance (or system boundary map) of all inputs and outputs. This allowed the entire site to understand the opportunity for improvement from both financial and environmental points of view. The intervention team explored the key hotspots (the points at which most physical wastes accrue) along the end to end process by populating a big picture map (or a green impact matrix).

A series of improvement projects were developed as a result and communicated with using A3 techniques.

Changes were made that are projected to save more than 2,600 tonnes of waste in milk equivalent terms on annualised project basis. This is the equivalent of around 4.5 million average retail size bottles of milk or 83 fully loaded 30 ton lorries or 5 fully laden jumbo jets.

You can access the entire case study at https://www.sapartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Arla.pdf