Beer & A Better World - Anheuser-Busch InBev

eing efficient and reducing waste — which is
an important part of our culture — we also recognize
that we have a role to play in addressing
shared challenges such as climate change.
2012 environmental Targets
In 2009, we set targets on key measures such as
water and energy use, as well as carbon emission
reductions, that we will strive to achieve by the
end of 2012. Our global companywide 2012
targets are to:
• Increase our waste and by-product recycling
to 99 percent.
• Reduce water use for beer and soft drinks
plants to an industry leading 3.5 hectoliters
of water for each hectoliter of product.
• Reduce energy use per hectoliter by 10 percent.
• Reduce CO2
emissions per hectoliter
by 10 percent.
improving environmental Performance
SUN InBev is already making significant contributions
to helping achieve these goals by setting high
environmental objectives to minimize its impact
on the environment and lower its consumption of
natural resources.
• We have reduced our water usage per hectoliter
of production by 5 percent since 2007.
• SUN InBev has reduced energy consumption
per hectoliter of production by 6 percent
since 2007.
• In 2009, SUN InBev reduced fuel use by
5 percent, the best result within Anheuser-
Busch InBev.
In 2009, our Volzhsky plant won the Gold Medal
as the winner of the company’s Voyager Plant
Optimization (VPO) Global Excellence Award. The
VPO program is focused on excellence in the way
we operate our breweries worldwide. Competing
in the event were 83 VPO qualified plants that
had demonstrated excellence in their operations
throughout the year.
Our facilities in Klin and Omsk use the Bio-Energy
Recovery System (BERS), which is a method of
capturing methane to manufacture steam and
produce energy to fuel the breweries. In recent
years, we reduced carbon dioxide emissions,
decreased water consumption, and continued to
build water treatment plants at our breweries in
Klin, Omsk and Angarsk. These new wastewater
treatment plants are based on an anaerobic biological
digestion process that treats 100 percent
of our wastewater in accordance with regulatory
requirements. We invested more than $50 million
in the latest technology on the market for these
systems to ensure legal compliance and improve
our wastewater discharge.
In 2009, SUN InBev also joined in the
company-wide celebration of the United
Nations-sponsored World Environment Day.
Employees took part in special events in several
Russian cities that are home to SUN InBev
breweries. In Omsk, for example, brewery
employees took part in an environmental event
in a local park by P. Komissarov. Together with
the art studio “Skvorechnik,” our employees
undertook ecological activity and opened the
exhibition “Moving Skvorechnik” that promotes
a careful attitude to the environment. In
Novocheboksarsk, in cooperation with a youth
ecology organization called “Muraveynik,”
SUN InBev employees planted trees to help
prevent land erosion.
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In Volzhsky, SUN InBev assisted city
authorities in building a fountain
in the town’s central square. Also,
in 2009, SUN InBev supported
the redevelopment of a local
theatre square in Volzhsky.