A few years ago, a worker in Coors Brewing Co.’s Golden, Colo., brewery launched an effort that resulted in the brewery sending nothing – zero, zilch, nada – to the landfill. CBC’s parent, MillerCoors, expanded that program throughout its manufacturing footprint.
Now, Mark Hunter, ceo of MillerCoors’ parent, Molson Coors Brewing Co., has set that as a key goal for the global enterprise to reach by 2025. He announced the goal in the company’s annual corporate social responsibility report.
Naturally, the company vows to continue promoting responsible drinking, marketing and distributing nutritional information, alcohol serving facts and ingredients to consumers for 100% of our products.
The goals also include improving water use 22% to achieve a 2.8 hl/hl water-to-beer ratio, reducing carbon emissions from the company’s direct operations by 50% and 20% across its entire value chain, improving the water-use efficiency of its agricultural supply chain and malting operations by 10%. “The 10% improvement is equivalent to the entire water use of all our breweries across the world,” the company notes.
In other goals, Molson Coors is seeking a 40% reduction in lost time accident rate, to promote diversity across its supply chain and to actively engage with women-owned or minority-owned businesses as supplier.
The company also reported on their collective progress towards prior sustainability goals during 2016, including:
- Alcohol Responsibility: As part of the Global CEO Commitments, joined with 10 other top global alcohol producers to help reduce the harmful use of alcohol by 10 percent globally; and 177 brands and brand extensions have a symbol, equivalent words or a website with additional information on alcohol responsibility.
- Water Efficiency: Achieved 3.53hl/hl water-to-beer ratio for the merged Molson Coors and MillerCoors operations.
- Waste Reduction: Attained zero waste to landfill at 13 major manufacturing facilities by the end of 2016.
- Energy & Carbon Performance: Made investments in cleaner energy sources and energy-saving initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint of our breweries and reduce emissions.
- Community Investment: Invested over $12.1 million in communities where offices and breweries are located.
You can read the entire report here.