Our Sustainability Commitment

We are a dairy farmer lead not-for-profit partnership. We recognize that our business activities have an impact on the environment. In all our activities, working practices and business relationships, we are committed to protecting, conserving, and enhancing all aspects of the environment over which we have control or can influence.

• We shall ensure compliance with all relevant environmental legislation and regulations and take action to continually improve our environmental performance and prevent pollution across all our activities and services, including all facilities that we utilize.

• We aim to recycle all possible waste products. We will carefully dispose of all waste products that cannot be recycled by a recognised and certified method.

• We will optimise our fuel consumption and limit unnecessary use of electricity, gas and water.

• We will establish baselines for consumption in order to measure our current consumption and set a reduction target in the future.

• We will maintain the high standard of visual appearance, cleanliness and tidiness of our office building and any premises at which our staff are employed by good housekeeping and regular inspections.

• We will consider the environmental impact of our staff travelling to provide our services and aim to reduce the environmental impact of our transport where possible.

• We will take into consideration environmental issues when designing new services and when selecting our suppliers.

• We will endeavour to provide sustainability tools for the Canadian dairy industry to support their economic and environmental sustainability initiatives.

• We will communicate this environmental policy to all staff, customers, suppliers and industry partners.

Overall, responsibility for environmental policy and performance rests with the Board of Directors. This policy is to be reviewed annually and is available to the public.