Environmental Management in the Dairy Industry and Its Relevance for Sustainable Development
The paper discusses the main assumptions of the sustainable development concept and shows how the environmental management system, which implements the idea in practice, is put in place in the dairy industry. The first part explains the assumptions of the idea and how they are implemented in enterprises. It also describes the substance, principles and goals of sustainable development as well as efforts and ways in which enterprises seek to minimise their environmental impact. Based on the results of empirical studies, the second part explains how environmental management systems are implemented in dairy companies taking account of the elements such as: the sources of funding, barriers to the implementation of the system, positive effects of the system, its improvements and ways to review the system efficiency.