Our operation
Environment
Big River Pork is committed to minimising its environmental footprint through sustainable management systems, carefully monitored, and supported by new technology.
Our footprint
On the Murray, so it matters here more than most places
Our sustainable management systems work to conserve soils, limit chemical usage, improve water use efficiency, reduce waste and minimise energy usage across the plant.
We carefully monitor our environmental impacts and put new technology to work controlling them.
Five commitments
Where the effort goes
Conserve soils
Sustainable land management around the site and its surrounds.
Limit chemical usage
Tight controls on what is used, where, and how much.
Improve water efficiency
Continually improving how water is used across the plant.
Reduce waste
Reducing what leaves the site as waste rather than product.
Minimise energy usage
Managing energy demand across chilling, processing and packing.
Water
A filtration system doing the work
Water efficiency is not a policy on a page here. The site runs its own filtration system, so water used through the plant is treated and managed on site rather than simply discharged.
It sits alongside the wider effort to conserve soils, limit chemical usage, reduce waste and minimise energy, all of it monitored so we can see whether it is working.
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