Clean technologies, cleaner production, waste minimisation, process optimisation - call it what you will. All these methods aim to cut waste at the source, so you don't produce as much wastewater to be dealt with at the "end-of-pipe".

"Cleaner production" is the continuous improvement of processes, products and services, aimed at preventing the generation of waste. Businesses can reduce their environmental effects by:

• Efficiently using resources
• Improving energy efficiency
• Reducing water usage
• Reducing waste produced

Benefits to businesses are not simply reduced resource costs, but also improved environmental performance and public image.

Using resources more efficiently usually requires measurement of inputs. If you can't measure it, you can't manage it. Trident Monitoring Services Ltd can apply many years experience in the dairy industry, which has been at the forefront of waste minimisation/process optimisation, to a number of process industries. We can identify process losses and opportunities to make considerable savings. Water and energy usage and cleaning chemical recovery can be optimized to minimize waste.

Completed waste minimisation projects include:

• Water usage in dairy factories (NZ, Australia, and South America)
• Audit of dairy goat milk powder factory process losses
• Installation of cleaning chemical recovery systems
• Thermal energy surveys
• Temperature profile of a coolstore facility
• In-process pH traceback in ice-cream & meat products manufacturing plants