Abstract: Dairy by-products represent a potential phospholipids (PLs) source, making them an attractive feedstock for value-added opportunities. Currently, the extraction of PLs from streams of by-products results in overall low efficiencies, and it involves subsequent solvent separation and lipid recovery. Over the past few years, academic research in green extractions has involved supercritical CO2, sub-critical water, pretreatments, and tunable solvents. Switchable or tunable solvents are made of primary, secondary, or tertiary amines, and they are capable of extracting lipids from wet materials. Switchable solvents abruptly and reversibly switch between a hydrophobic form (poorly miscible with water) and a hydrophilic form (miscible with water). This presentation attempts to make a case for switchable solvents as a green extraction method for PLs. The ability of switchable solvents to extract and separate PLs is illustrated under three scenarios: 1) study of the feasibility of switchable solvents using different dairy matrices; 2) study of the extraction conditions; and 3) study of the extraction mechanism with a tertiary amine.