Irish Large Water Users Community of Practice VIDA Webinar - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Irish Large Water Users Community of Practice

VIDA Webinar Presentation – Water & Related Challenges & Opportunities in the Beef Industry Jan 22nd 2019 Ken Stockil Barry O Donovan Central Solutions ABP Food Group

@central-solutions @central_sol_ltd

▪ Typical sites are using >20k+ m3 water per annum or Water is Critical to the Process. ▪ Membership of >180+ production sites across Meat Processing, Food & Beverage, Pharma, Medtech, ICT, etc ▪ National Projects & Programmes with EPA, Irish Water + Bord Bia + Bord Iascaigh Mhara etc ▪ Peer to Peer Meetings & Best Practice Projects

✓ R&D (H2020, Interreg etc) ✓ Tariffs (CRU) ✓ PiE – Healthcare, Pharma & Food (Dec 4th) ✓ 5 Steps – Food & Beverage (Feb 20th)

Large Water Users CoP

General Challenges/Opportunities

Specific Challenges/Opportunities – July ‘18

• Metering & Monitoring Solutions (Low Cost Solutions for Site Level

and Subsite Levels)

• Water ReUse – Opportunity Assessment & Deployment
• Waste Water Treatment Technologies – Observatory & Piloting
• Water Quality Sensors – Observatory & Piloting
• CiP Best Practice Development & Adoption
• Addressing perceived Risk of Water ReUse in Food Production

through Public Awareness & Education.

• Water Neutrality & Footprinting Scheme
• Researching & Piloting Science Based Targets for Water across

supply chains in the food sector

Barry O’Donovan - ABP Food Group

VIDA Agrofood sector Meat Processing Industry

PROTEINS

ABP Food Group

Turnover €2.5bn 10,000 employees 46 factory/processing sites 1 m cattle processed annually 1 m lambs processed annually 300,000 tonnes Pet Food annually An integrated Agrifood business operating across 4 divisions FRESH & FROZEN FOOD PET FOODS RENEWABLES

• The beef industry is a significant water consumer
• ABP has an important role to play both on site and throughout the

entire supply chain

• Energy / water nexus in food processing
• Knowledge transfer between our sites
• Climate change and the wider environmental impact of the beef

sector

Challenges facing ABP

Corporate targets

• European Water Stewardship – First company with multi site
• Carbon Trust – 4 standards for the entire group. Carbon, water,

waste and carbon in the supply chain

• Origin Green – Sustainability charter with long term commitments
• ISO 50001 – Energy management across 8 facilities in Ireland
• ISO 14001 – Environmental management across all sites
• Science Based Targets

Standardise our approach

• Recycle water “rainfall harvesting”

– Effluent discharge for chemical make up, trailer/yard/lairage wash – Water re-use also inside the production facilities

• Communication – present data to the relevant people

– Provide operators with an opportunity to express opinion

• Optimise our processes

– Automate tripe processing cycles – Replace continuous flow sterilisers – Change wash down practices

What have we done

Water Footprint