Beer & A Better World - Anheuser-Busch InBev

sufficient to supply a population of 450.000
people for a month.
• We cut CO2
emissions per hectoliter of
production by 40 percent in the past five years,
including a reduction of 6.7 percent from
2008 to 2009.
• We reduced the organic load of our wastewater
by 18.6 percent in the past five years.
• About 27 percent of the energy we use in
the Latin America North zone comes from
renewable fuels.
World environment Day
A total of 31 beverage plants, four malting
plants, three verticalized plants and three
distribution centers — together with
Anheuser-Busch InBev, Latin American
North (LAN) Partners, non-governmental
organizations, environmental agencies,
municipalities and communities joined forces in
Brazil for the World Environment Day Campaign.
Of these participants, 29 beverage plants, three
malting plants and three verticalized plants got
an early start on water use reduction efforts.
They promoted a campaign for World Water
Day, beginning March 22 and finishing at the
end of June.
During the month of June, AmBev employees
worked together on reducing water use, carbon
dioxide emissions and energy consumption;
increasing recycling efforts; and implementing
a number of number of biodiversity projects
such as planting trees and preserving fauna.
Several examples of World Environment Day
activities follow:
navegantes malting Plant
The World Environment Day campaign involved
more than 450 people, with participation of
nongovernmental organizations, malt producer
cooperatives and more than 100 municipalities
from the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul,
Santa Catarina and Parana.
The objectives were:
1) Fostering a better world.
2) Minimizing the use of natural resources.
3) Bringing in a “cleaner” product.
4) Educating our people.
Achievements of this campaign included:
Tree-seedling donations
The plant donated tree seedlings to barley
farmers so they could create green belts, which
help protect agricultural land and undeveloped
land. Green belts help increase biodiversity,
reduce carbon dioxide levels and impede wind
erosion.
Synergistic Development of Corn with Barley
The plant helped implement sustainable
agriculture through appropriate management
practices that encourage environmental synergies
with corn and barley. This effort encouraged
crop rotation to reduce the possibility of harmful
diseases and pests in cereal crops. As a result,
farmers can use smaller amounts of pesticides
AmBev’s employees partnered with
local barley farmers to help create
green belts, protecting agricultural and
undeveloped land.
Schools collected recyclable bottles and
cans as part of an AmBev-sponsored
World Environment Day initiative.