Environment

Operating, quality and environmental policy Laeva Plant Võru Cheese Plant History Quality and certificates

Valio Eesti AS is an environment-friendly company and it is certified with the environmental management system certificate ISO 14001

This means that Valio Eesti AS has undertaken responsibility for the environment, purchasing technology that minimises environmental impact, ensuring sustainable use of raw materials and energy, and facilitating use of recoverable and energy-efficient packaging.

Environmental management certificate ISO 14001 covers activities of Valio in Finland and Estonia.

ISO certificate proves that Valio Eesti has mapped thoroughly their operating processes, which enables to save costs and increase efficiency, minimise environmental costs, ensure better compliance with legal acts, and provide security to every consumer that our products have been manufactured in environment-friendly and sustainable way.

Principles of environmental management of the organisation are:

To assess operation of the environmental management system through regular internal and external audits on organisational as well as local levels
To revise annually the environmental goals
The main environmental parameters form part of annual report of the organisation

Major environmental goals of Valio Eesti AS:

Minimising wastewater quantities and pollution load
Sustainable use of water and energy
Minimising municipal waste

In our purchase activities we cooperate with the partners, whose values and objectives match the environmental goals of Valio Eesti. This operation principle means balance between the environment and social and business objectives.