Cargill Unveils Green Plan

Cargill will invest A$13m (US$12m) to upgrade the wastewater treatment system at its Wagga Wagga beef processing facility to capture biogas emitted during treatment.

The US food producer said the investment will allow the company to reduce the facility’s carbon footprint by nearly 17%.

Cargill will also replace existing ponds with two covered anaerobic ponds with a volume of 28,000m³.

The proposal includes the installation of a biogas collection system to reclaim biogas emitted from the wastewater lagoon.

The project, scheduled to be commissioned in May 2011, allows for the installation of a cogeneration facility to generate about 1MW of renewable electricity from biogas.