When the UK's leading yogurt manufacturer1 signed up for the scheme in autumn 2007, it became one of nine high profile companies to use the draft product carbon footprinting standard which is being developed by the Carbon Trust, Defra and BSI British Standards to measure the embodied greenhouse gas emissions of products and services. The key objective of the Carbon Trust is to accelerate the UK's move to a low carbon economy by developing commercial low carbon technologies and helping organisations reduce their carbon emissions.

Through participating in the scheme Müller® Dairy UK aims to identify the carbon footprint of one of its brands by measuring its impact on the environment in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions generated throughout the supply chain from sourcing raw materials, through the production and packaging processes, to transport, distribution and storage, consumer use and disposal and recycling.  

The project aims to highlight areas in the supply chain where there is the potential to reduce carbon emissions. It is the intention of Müller to reduce product carbon emissions and to work together with the Carbon Trust to explore the best way to communicate this information to consumers. 

The Carbon Trust has created a carbon reduction label that can be used by companies measuring their carbon footprint to communicate the embodied carbon emissions information to consumers. In order to retain usage of the Carbon Trust label, companies must sustain reductions in carbon emissions over a two year period.

Müller® UK Telesales call 01630 698600 or visit http://www.muller.co.uk/.

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