This Toolkit outlines
the environmental challenges faced by food processors and discusses
how the application of Eco-efficiency strategies can ensure the
efficient use of resources, a decrease in waste production and an
increase in profitability.
The Toolkit includes
chapters on water and wastewater, energy, chemicals, packaging and
solid waste and describes potential Eco-efficiency opportunities
within a food processing plant. Many of these opportunities are
supported by Australian case studies along with examples drawn from
those Queensland food processing companies who participated in the
project.
The Toolkit also
features a self assessment guide that outlines the steps in
undertaking an assessment and includes pro-forma sheets designed to
be copied and used on-site. The Toolkit's accompanying CD includes a
generic training presentation, a series of Excel-based calculators
and a table summarising the many opportunities mentioned in the
manual.
The Toolkit
Whole manual
Foreword
Preliminaries
Introduction
Eco-efficiency self assessment guide
Water and wastewater
Energy
Packaging
Solid waste reduction and value adding
Chemicals
References
Units and conversion factors
Useful web links
CD-Rom
A generic training presentation
A series of Excel-based calculators
True cost of water
Energy sources and greenhouse gas
emissions
Trade waste costs
Compressed air
Tables of Eco-Efficiency Opportunities
Water and wastewater
Energy
Solid Waste
Packaging
Chemicals
Case Studies
Some of the finding of these assessments have been prepared into
case studies that are available on the
Queensland Environmental Protection Agency website.
Case
Studies
Case Studies Wanted! If you have undertaken a
project that has saved you money or reduced your water, energy or resource consumption and waste production
please let us know. Perhaps you have undertaken a project that has reduced your water use as part of
the WEMP process or you now switch off machinery at the end of the day to save you energy. We want to
know. We will be undertaking site visits as a major component of the project to obtain case studies
to demonstrate successful implementation of eco-efficiency.
Jane Gaffel
UNEP Working Group for Cleaner Production in the Food
Industry
Chamberlain Building
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, Qld, 4072
Ph: (07) 3365 1432
Fax: (07) 3365 6899
Email:
j.gaffel@uq.edu.au
For existing
Eco-efficiency assessment case studies see the
Environmental Protection Agency
website.
