Mono Monday - Recycling

You may wonder what milking cups have to do with recycling. Let me tell you.

It's not the actual cups that are the recycling bit of this photo, but the water that goes through the cups once milking has finished. The cups are put onto 'jetters' and water is rinsed through the milking plant to clean them. With water being an important commodity, we recycle certain parts of the wash by using it to rinse the silo after the milk has been collected by the tanker. This water is then irrigated back onto the pasture. So, certain parts of the original water wash has been recycled up to two or three times.