Environmental Management of the Dairy Industry in the Riyadh Region: A Study in Environmental Geography

The dairy industry is one of the important food industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that needs Conscious environmental management. This research aims to identify the extent to which environmental management is applied in dairy factories in Riyadh in order to achieve environmental sustainability. The importance of research lies in preserving the environment, treating its industrial waste, and ensuring the quality of food, and the health of milk, which represents the main food for society. The study relied on several approaches, including: the inductive approach, relies on observing the phenomenon, and in our study, the development of the dairy industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was observed, and the Kingdom became one of the dairy exporting countries, and this approach was used to analyze how the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia achieved this great achievement in the development of the dairy industry, And the inferential approach that was used to deduce the factors that helped and made the dairy industry one of the leading industries in the Kingdom, And the descriptive approach that relies on an accurate description of the phenomenon, and is based on describing the dairy industry from ancient times until the present and environmental management in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Several tools and were used, including: quantitative methods like statistical packages for social sciences (SPSS), cartographic methods (GIS), laboratory analysis of water, soil and air quality. many tools were used to collect data, like questionnaires, interviews, observations, and field studies to verify environmental management within factories. The research sample included four dairy production factories in the Riyadh region. the research reached several results, such as the adoption of dairy industry companies in the Riyadh region of agricultural methods that take into account the preservation of the environment, like regenerative agriculture, the fallow cultivation system, and organic farming, The research also reached good environmental management of water, the use of environmentally friendly materials for product packaging in order to reduce environmental pollution, and the adoption of appropriate methods to reduce gas emissions and air pollution, the development of the dairy industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its use of modern technology. The study recommends the need for agencies to update their data related to the environment and facilitate access to it, the importance of securing water supplies from sustainable sources. and the importance of establishing environmental units within various institutions, companies and industries.