Photos of 16 missing people from all around Australia will be featured on milk bottles in a new joint campaign with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) National Missing Persons Coordination Centre (NMPCC) and Canberra Milk.

The profiles of 16 long-term missing people will be printed on 1 litre bottles and their stories will be shared on social media.

"One person featured in last year's Canberra Milk campaign was located." AFP Assistant Commissioner Lesa Gale said.

"It is initiatives like these that remind people that missing persons are real people, and this is something that needs to be spoken about more."

Relatives of the missing people are on board with the campaign, saying that it brings them hope that their loved one might be found.

"Our missing you is deepened by that of not knowing where you are. But campaigns like this prove we are not alone in our search," Jason Sallese, son of long-term missing Nicola Sallese, said.

The 16 people that will be featured on the milk bottles are:

• David Abuoi, ACT who has been missing in Canberra on July 10, 2012
• Laura Haworth, ACT who has been missing since January 5, 2008 after she disappeared from Queanbeyan in NSW
• Robert Jacob, ACT who was last seen on November 12, 2015 in the ACT
• Ruth Ridley, NSW who was last seen on November 18, 2019 travelling from her home in Port Macquarie to Tumbarumba
• Kylee-Ann Schaffer, NSW who was last seen on September 11, 2004 when she went to a party at Willawarren
• John Brown, QLD, who was last seen on June 15, 2016
• Ronya Livoni, NT who was last seen on March 10, 2980
• Richard Roe, NT who was last seen on November 2, 2016
• Danny Walker, QLD who was last seen on May 21, 2008
• Christine Redford, SA who was last seen at her home on June 30, 1998
• Eve Askew, TAS who was last seen by her family on November 16, 1991
• Nicola (Nick) Sallese, TAS who has not been seen since November 17, 2008
• Andrew Oleenik, VIC who was last seen in Queenscliff on March 7, 2005
• Lorrin Whitehead, VIC who was last seen on February 8, 2013
• Dragon Jankovic, WA who was last seen since March 10, 2019
• Josephine Jennings, WA who was has not been seen since September 1995 

Photo credit  Australian Federal Police