MILK TO GO: A tanker driving filling up with milk from Rancho El Mezquite in Mexico.

In Mexico, Nestlé collects fresh milk in several dairy production areas where biogas digesters have been built to capture methane from cows and use it as energy. For example:

• one biodigester at the El Crotalo stable in the Torreon milk district processes on average 1200 m³ of methane daily from nearly 2400 cows;
• in the Querétaro milk district, three biodigesters process 2400 m³ of methane daily, which is expected to reduce electricity consumption by 90% at the farm where they are operating;
• the 800 m³ of methane produced by La Torreña Agroindustrias will halve its electricity consumption.

Additional biogas plants are under construction as a result of the sustainability analysis at farm level (RISE assessment). In 2011, we project that around 35% of the milk supplied for Nestlé in Mexico will come from dairy farms with biogas plants.

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