Defra and the UK dairy industry have recently launched a Milk Roadmap which seeks to reduce the environmental impacts of liquid milk production and consumption. This living document, to be revisited in September 2008, contains a series of short, medium and long-term actions to improve the environmental performance of the dairy sector, including issues relating to environmental stewardship and greenhouse gas emissions of dairy farms, and the efficiency of energy and water use by milk processing plants.

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