S6.13 : Guidance for the Dairy and Milk Processing Sector

To provide details and summaries of the Best Available Techniques (BAT) for pollution control in the Guidance for the Dairy and Milk Processing Sector, which are relevant in the UK context. These are expressed, where possible, as clear indicative standards that need to be addressed by applicants.
To provide a clear structure and methodology which will help operators to make a satisfactory Permit application.
To increase transparency and consistency in the permitting process by providing a structure in which operators' responses to specific issues - and departures from indicative standards - can be clearly seen.
To highlight areas where the environmental performance of many installations in the Guidance for the Dairy and Milk Processing Sector needs to be improved as a matter of priority.

The key environmental issues for this sector are:Water use

The inclusion of the standard requirements for energy, noise, accidents, site closure, waste BPEO and material efficiency which directly result from the PPC Regulations and which are the same as have been applied to the other sectors brought into IPPC to date.
The focus on the key issues given in Section 1.5, in particular those mentioned above
The requirement to target performance parameters such as water use per tonne of product. It is the reduction in such parameters that the SEPA sees as most closely reflecting the environmental outcomes which we wish to see.