Head office Lechera Asturian reduces the environmental impact of his products by means of the calculation of the footprint of carbon

The calculation has carried out in accordance with the norm PAS 2050, internationally recognised, including an analysis detailed of all the stages of the cycle of life of product 'B2C' (Business to Consumer) from the obtaining of prime matters, going through the dairy treatment, packaging, transport and distribution, use or consumption and the end of life of the product.

This initiative splits of the intention of Head office Lechera Asturian to diminish the environmental impacts further of his own processes, involving to all the chain of supply. The measure of the footprint of carbon has allowed to quantify the broadcasts of Gases of Effect Invernadero (GEI) and concretise in terms of CO_2eq the different environmental improvements promoted fruit of his Plan of Sustainability initiated in the year 2008.

An example is the set up of a Plan of Sustainable Mobility that involves diverse measures focused to the improvement of the system of distribution and logistical. Between other actions, this initiative is promoting the utilisation of the railway for the transport of commodities, the employment of biofuels for vehicles and the optimisation of routes of transport reaching a reduction of 3.228 tonnes of CO_2eq issued to the atmosphere during  the year 2010.

The measurement of the footprint of carbon allows to enter criteria of sustainability in the strategy of the company as well as a more precise approach of the measures to adopt for the reduction of the broadcasts of CO₂. This bet frames inside one of the five pillars of the Plan Sustainability that Central Lechera Asturian has elaborated with the vocation to orient all the initiatives developed by the organisation inside this commitment and seat the bases for compatibilizar the economic growth with the environmental preservation, by means of the increase of the efficiency in the productivity, consuming less resources and generating less waste.

The calculation of the footprint of carbon is only one of the actions that Central Lechera Asturian is realising to reduce the environmental impacts. The efficient management of the water (through the calculation of the Footprint Hídrica, that is to say, the water that spends to produce a litre of milk), the optimisation of the energetic consumptions or the reduction of the waste of containers put in the market or the generated in the own productive process are some of these activities.