Beer & A Better World - Anheuser-Busch InBev

7,916 students took part in the contest. They
gathered 1,397 metric tons of bottles and cans.
Other activities during the campaign included:
• The donation of seedlings of native fruit trees
(acerola, araçá e pitanga) to employees with
the objective of biodiversity preservation and
climate change awareness.
• An effort to discourage food waste among
employees. During lunch time, all employees
who didn’t waste food won tickets to exchange
for an environmentally-friendly “green” bag.
awards and Special recognition
Guarulhos Brewery - Environmental Award
— Encouraging Biodiversity at the Guarulhos
Brewery (São Paulo, Brazil)
The Guarulhos brewery received the
“Environmental Seal,” an environmental award
granted by the city of São Paulo in recognition
of the brewery’s efforts to track and preserve
wild animals in the Atlantic Forest. The brewery
is located near the 8-million-square-meter
forest. The animal-preservation program was
developed in partnership with the municipality’s
Department of Environment. The program
catalogs wild animals and rehabilitates certain
species in nurseries built inside the plant with
the objective of returning them to the forest.
In February 2009, the plant also was approved
as an “Area of Preservation and Tracking Wild
Animals” by IBAMA, the Brazilian Institute of
Environment and Renewable Natural Resources,
the National Environmental Agency.
Jaguariuna Water Action Prize
The Jaguariuna brewery implemented a project
to recover water from some steps of the
production process. Its project, “Sustainable
Water Use,” received an award in the Water
Reuse category from the Intermunicipal Basin
Consortium of Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaí
rivers. The project also was recognized with
an award from Federação das Indústrias do
Estado de São Paulo for Water Conservation
and Reuse. The project began at the end of 2007
and resulted in a 13.9 percent reduction in the
water consumption index in the first half of 2008
compared with the same period in 2007. This
amount equaled about 600,000 cubic meters of
water, enough to supply water for one month to
the town’s 36,000 inhabitants.
Curitiba Plant
In 2008, the Curitiba Plant developed
a recovery system for rain
water to be used. Through 2009,
the project recovered 14,300
cubic meters of rain water each
year — enough to supply water
to a population of 3,000 for a
month. The collected non-potable
rain water was treated and used
for projects such as refrigerating
towers and external cleaning.
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Above left: AmBev supported the
development of a school vegetable
garden in the city of Panel, Santa
Catarina in Brazil.
Above right: As part of World
Environment Day, the Sapucaia
brewery promoted a contest between
local schools to see which could
collect the most recyclable beverage
containers. A total of 12 schools and
nearly 8,000 students took part in
the contest.