As this thread started about money .I'll post this up here.
Being in the a mining and energy town,I quiet often read about this emissions issues/environment etc and the power of money ...suppose GREED just intrigues me
....some people are going to get rich out of this Carbon Credits Government plan and going
green.........
An interesting article below for Fridays Farming news
How the world's largest meat processor slashed its carbon footprint
BY LUCY KNIGHT
10 Dec, 2009 04:00 AM
THE world's largest meat processor has become so obsessed with reducing its environmental impact that it has calculated its carbon footprint down to each individual pork chop.
At Danish Crown, being environmentally efficient is king not just because of the consumer and regulatory demands to do so, but because the cost savings from being green are so great.
Danish Crown slaughters almost 20 million pigs each year and is the name behind many well-known pork products in not just Denmark and Europe, but here in Australia too, sending about 30,000 tonnes of pig meat here every year.
But it's hard to believe that this company kills pigs for a living when visiting their new state of the art processing plant at Horsens, in Denmark's Jutland region, because it's so clean, bright, fresh and modern.
This is the most modern livestock processing plant in the world, built four years ago predominantly to reduce labour costs by introducing new levels of robotic processing machines, as well as meet new animal welfare standards.
But the 175-year-old farmer-owned company didn't let the opportunity to overhaul their facilities pass them by, using the chance to think and act green in every aspect of processing.
In the quest for complete environmental accountability, Danish Crown has put the equivalent of an environmental price tag on each pig slaughtered, which gives the company a benchmark to continue driving down emissions and waste.
Greenhouse emissions mapping has enabled Danish Crown to calculate that each pork chop has a climate change impact of 360 grams of CO2 equivalent.
They say this is the same as drinking four cups of coffee, driving one kilometre in a car, hoovering for 25 minutes or watching television for four hours and 45 minutes.
Corporate communications manager, Anne Villemoes, says waste had been reduced so significantly, that only the pig's scream was left.
But now that is gone too.
"If you look around the plant, there's no waste. Every part of the pig is used," Ms Villemoes said.
