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All breweries have programmes to minimise waste by ensuring recycling of plastics, cardboard, cans, scrap,
paper, scrap metal and glass. Newlands brewery has taken this further by establishing an empowerment company
to manage and optimise waste recycling. This operation
generates revenue of around US$8,000 (R45,000) per month.
Kompania Piwowarska has introduced specific
procedures for excessive noise, sewage pollution and waste.
• RE-USE AND RECYCLING ▪ SAB COMPANIES WILL PROMOTE
RE-USE AND RECYCLING INITIATIVES BOTH IN BUSINESS
OPERATIONS AND IN COMMUNITIES, PARTICULARLY OF USED
PACKAGING MATERIALS.
These have substantially restricted or eliminated adverse
influences on the environment. As a result, the company was the first Polish brewer to be granted a certificate of
Cleaner Production in 1997. The company has instituted procedures for ISO 14000 compliance, and is aiming to
achieve this by 2002. In addition to normal health and safety procedures, the company fully supports the national
safety standard, Koniczyna, and has implemented the necessary processes to achieve five-leaf ratings. To comply with
environmental legislation, both Lech and Tyskie breweries will convert their coal-based steam boilers to gas by June
2002. This will save over 55,000 tons of coal per annum. Water usage by the breweries, at 6.9 hectolitres per hectolitre
of beer, compares favourably with other European brewers. An anaerobic waste water treatment facility is planned at a
cost of some US$4 million (R23 million), with completion scheduled for end 2001.
In Uganda, Nile Breweries is literally metres away from the source of the Nile River. Its fine waters have been
a direct contributor to Nile brands becoming market leaders. Accordingly, staff at the brewery are guided by a powerful
moral and business imperative to conserve the environment by implementing cleaner manufacturing techniques.
An environmental impact assessment has confirmed that the impact of Nile Breweries’ effluent is negligible.
VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL
PROGRAMMES HAVE BEEN
LAUNCHED BY THE GROUP
AND WILL BE USED TO
MONITOR PRESENT AND FUTURE IMPACTS.
South Africa now has the third highest beverage can recovery in the world, recovering
over 1,8 billion cans in the past year. Collect-A-Can, which receives strong support from
Beer South Africa, recovers 62 per cent of all beverage cans in South Africa, a rate
considerably higher than that of other packaging material (paper 38 per cent, glass 23 per cent). Since its formation in
1993, the company has created 20,000 jobs around the country and paid out more than US$8.8 million (R52 million) to
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