2019 SWANApalooza

Cabot Creamery Closed Loop Recycling System for Organic Byproducts (Room Ballroom B)

26 Feb 19
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM

Tracks: Landfill Gas and Biogas Symposium

Cabot Creamery is a cooperative of 1,200 dairy farm families, with four dairy processing facilities in upstate New York and New England. A long-time Casella partner, Cabot is dedicated to sustainability and always ready to collaborate on innovative new resource solutions. Cabot’s creamery facility in West Springfield, Massachusetts, began pioneering an exciting new closed-loop solution for organic byproducts such as whey. Casella delivers the material to Barstow’s Longview Dairy (a Cabot member farm), runs it through the BGreen Energy anaerobic digester, and creates electricity for the power grid, which Cabot then purchases to operate its creamery. Now the equivalent electricity needed to churn Cabot's butter at the West Springfield facility comes from Barstow’s Longview Farm.