包装确保我们的高质量乳制品安全送达世界各地的人们。但处理这些包装可能会带来挑战。
因此，我们正在采取措施减少影响。我们正在努力使我们的包装越来越符合可回收标准。
我们正在使我们的包装符合可回收标准。
虽然我们不总是能够影响客户可用的回收基础设施，但我们可以控制我们使用的包装类型。我们专注于使用符合可回收标准的材料和形式，同时不影响我们高质量产品或食品安全的结果。
可回收准备
可回收准备意味着我们的包装符合国际行业商定的可回收设计指南。¹ 这意味着使用过的包装可以通过商业化技术转化回原材料，从而减少对新原材料的需求。然而，确切的可回收水平会因任何特定市场中回收收集和处理基础设施的可用性而有所不同。在某些市场，由于基础设施尚未普及，一些可回收准备的包装尚不能被轻松回收。在这种情况下，我们也使用“准备回收”这个术语。
可回收
我们只会在我们确信收集和处理我们可回收准备包装的基础设施在我们销售的市场中易于获得时，才使用“可回收”及/或相关图标。²
Our progress
We continue to consider the environmental impacts of our packaging at key points in the lifecycle and have implemented new opportunities to use recycle-ready packaging materials, while maintaining our strict product quality and food safety requirements.
We estimate that around 90% of our packaging is recycle-ready. This estimate is consistent with FY24 and is on a total tonnage of packaging basis, incorporating updates in the recyclability status of individual packaging materials in FY25. Based on this, our target to achieve 100% recycle-ready packaging by 31 December 2025 is unlikely to be fully met before being retired at the end of the year.
We have been innovating in the use of AI to enhance our packaging quality control and reliability. Developed by our in-house Automation and Operational Technology team, our AI-enabled image recognition system enhances packaging quality control and reliabilit he technology uses AI-enabled image recognition to visually inspect 25kg milk powder bags for damage across 56 packing lines. Faulty bags are automatically rejected, and timestamped images are captured for traceability. Approximately 66 million bags a year are being checked by AI, helping us to reduce waste, downtime and continue producing consistently high product quality. Building on this success, the technology is also being used at our Clandeboye site to monitor bulk butter packaging. If a fault is detected, our operators are provided with an alert to intervene early so they can keep the production line running efficiently.
During the year we have implemented initiatives to reduce the environmental impacts associated with the packaging we use and actively supporting initiatives to increase recycling rates. Many of these are associated with the activities of our consumer business.
In Australia, our Stanhope site produces approximately 17,000 metric tonnes of 20kg cheese blocks each year. To package these products, the site has transitioned to using a recycle-ready film validated for food safety, quality, and machinability on production lines. This innovation substantially reduces the environmental impact of the approximately 45 tonnes of plastic used annually for packaging. We have also established industrial collection contracts to recycle soft plastics at our secondary processing sites, with future potential for developing broader recycling infrastructure for customers.
In a similar initiative, we are transitioning approximately 270 tonnes of PVDC-based films used at our Tullamarine site in Australia to recycle-ready packaging, delivering improved sustainable packaging outcomes while maintaining product integrity. This initiative eliminates non-recyclable materials that can damage recycling infrastructure, and the packaging will carry the ‘Check Locally’ ARL, guiding consumers on appropriate disposal. The commercial rollout began in July 2025, with full implementation across all applicable products expected by early 2026.
Australia participates in the Big Bag Recovery program, a government-accredited product stewardship scheme that allows industrial customers to recycle one-tonne bulk bags. Recycled bags are repurposed into items like school chairs and water evaporation floating covers.
Anchor Food Professionals has introduced recycle-ready packaging for mini butter portions in the Middle East. Our Dammam site produces these single-serve portions on a newly installed production line, using recycle-ready aluminium tubs and lids as a sustainable alternative to composite materials. This innovation provides a premium and sustainable alternative to plastic mini-tubs. The local production reduces lead times and improves operational efficiency for customers in the region.
你能做什么
产生真正的影响需要大家共同努力。
享用完美味的乳制品后，请确保清洁并回收所有可以回收的东西。当所有恒天然的乳制品爱好者都这样做时，我们可以共同帮助减少我们的影响。
同心协力减少固体废物
我们正在努力逐年减少送往垃圾填埋场的废物量。
我们与回收合作伙伴密切合作，以确定回收我们场地上多种废物类型的途径。
我们使用的一些材料需要专业的再加工，以确保它们不会进入垃圾填埋场。开发合适的技术可能需要时间，但我们会继续在新潜在解决方案出现时加以识别。
我们的方法
我们正在制定特定场地的废物改进计划，以识别我们在废物处理方面可以改进的地方，并确保解决方案在我们的各个场地之间共享。
我们与专家合作，确保随着技术和需求的发展，我们可以将任何难以回收的材料从垃圾填埋场转移出去。
通过我们的努力，与2019财年基准相比，2024财年送往垃圾填埋场的废物减少了32%。
¹ 例如，塑料回收商协会的设计指南和测试协议。
² 我们将“易于获得”定义为：(a) 至少80%的用户可以获得这种特定类型包装的回收服务（与澳大利亚回收标签等标签计划一致），或 (b) 数据显示这种特定类型包装的回收率至少达到30%（与艾伦·麦克阿瑟基金会全球承诺使用的定义一致）。