Scottish Dairy - 3% of Scotland's Emissions

equivalent to 1.67 3% The Scottish Government asked Best Foot Forward to emissions and resource use in Scotland's dairy supply chain. Six dairy products were studied in terms of their impact from cradle-to-grave: cheese, cream, butter, milk, yoghurt and ice cream. The study found that these six products account for 3% of Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions. measure the greenhouse gas TOTAL DAIRY Million tonnes Scotland's emissions .3B equivalent to 0.66 1.2% CHEESE Million tonnes Scotland's emissions Enteric Fermentation Le. cow burps and farts (methane) Beef (meat by product) equivalent to Solid Manure in muckheaps (methane and nitrous oxide) Whey (by-product) 0.08 0.15% CREAM Million tonnes Scotland's emissions ---- ---- --- Liquid Manure slurr and nitrous oxide) sane equivalent to 0.09 0.15% Feed: Grazing fresh grass (application of manure, fertizers) BUTTER Milion tonnes Scotland's emissions ---- Feed: Silage animal feed made from crops or grass (requires fertilisers, mowing equivalent to 0.02 0.03% ICE CREAM Million tonnes Scotland's emissions Feed: Concentrates (egenergy rich pellets) equivalent to 0.01 0% Distribution Parlour Energy Energy used in the milking parlour eg. milking machines, chilling, pumping, lighting YOGHURT Milion tonnes Scotland's emissions Retail Chilling Others (refrigerants, vets, seed purchase, car travel) Home Milk Freight Packaging Chilling equivalent to Food Waste Disposal 0.81 1.47% Milion tonnes Scotland's emissions Energy Other trefrigerants, extra MILK ingredients like salt) 9% of dairy products are wasted by consumers Scottish dairy – 3% of Scotland's emissions* BESTFOOTFORWARD Scottish dairy is equivalent to 3% of the country's national greenhouse gas emissions. A proportion of the emissions included in the study occur outside of Scotland (e.g. soya production in Brazil). For comparison, Scottish dairy produces around the same amount of carbon emissions as household energy use in the city of Glasgow. The Sstaby Cansants RETAILERS