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Arla Foods is the first major dairy company in the UK to achieve zero waste to landfill throughout the entire UK business, including all its sites. Through maximising recycling, the company has taken another step towards reaching its environmental targets and achieving its Closer to Nature ambition.

Arla Foods is donating butter, milk and cream to make sure that a group of volunteers in Rothwell are able to provide all the festive trimmings this Christmas.

Arla Foods is cutting back on road miles and emissions as well as increasing efficiency, after introducing new technology across the company’s sites in the UK.

Arla Foods' Stourton creamery has introduced state-of-the-art pipe cleaning technology, which helps reduce product waste and saves water, following a successful trial.

Arla Foods is going the extra mile and leading the way when it comes to making sure its drivers are maintaining high standards of driving and road safety.

Arla Foods has awarded the global advertising contract for its Lurpak brand to Wieden + Kennedy (W+K), taking over from Saatchi and Saatchi, following W+K’s tremendous success with Lurpak in the UK.

Arla Foods has expanded UHT production at its Settle creamery which has resulted in the site doubling its capacity of its square UHT carton to boost production and enable the company to meet current and future demand.

Arla Foods has been named among the UK’s best food and drink manufacturers after reaching the final of the industry’s national awards that recognise manufacturing success.

Arla Foods triumphed at the 2011 annual Yorkshire Awards where it received the Yorkshire Business Enterprise award for outstanding efforts in job creation in the county.

The Secretary of State has confirmed that he will not call-in the £150 million Arla dairy proposal, giving Aylesbury Vale District Council (AVDC) the green light to grant detailed planning permission for the dairy and outline planning permission for the ancillary and supporting business park uses on the site near to Aston Clinton, Aylesbury.

Just nine months after Arla Foods joined forces with Arla Foods Milk Partnership (AFMP) to drive down CO2 emissions from farm to store, nearly 30 per cent of AFMP members have attended environmental workshops and over 200 have taken advantage of a free carbon assessment.

The world’s largest zero carbon dairy has been given the go ahead by the Aylesbury Vale District Council’s (AVDC) planning authority, generating 700 new jobs for the area.