America's second-largest beer and cider maker achieves landfill-free status at all its major breweries
MillerCoors - the drinks giant behind Coors and Blue Moon beer brands - has this week announced all its major breweries now send no waste to landfill after its Fort Worth brewery in Texas became the latest to achieve landfill-free status.
The achievement is the latest landmark in MillerCoor's ongoing efforts to secure landfill-free status across its entire US operations by 2020 by reducing waste, increasing recycling rates, and diverting rubbish from landfill to alternative disposal sites such as waste-to-energy plants.
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Kim Marotta, director of sustainability at MillerCoors, said the landfill-free achievement will make a "significant impact" towards the firm's over-arching sustainability goals. "While we continuously strive to reduce waste, we will also remain focused on our other sustainability priorities, including... further decreasing our water use, lowering our carbon emissions, and making greater investment in our people and our communities," she added in a statement.
To bring the Fort Worth brewery into line with the rest of MillerCoors' plants the firm sought to change employee behaviour by making recycling easier and more accessible within the factory.
It now says almost 100 per cent of the brewery's waste is now recycled or reused, with the remainder sent to a waste-to-energy plant.
Since 2009 MillerCoors' claims it has reduced waste across its operations by 89 per cent - the equivalent to diverting more than 4,000 tonnes of waste from landfill.
The company is the latest in a line of high-profile brands to recently secure zero waste status at its sites.
In recent weeks, both Unilever and Ford have made similar announcements, confirming large numbers of their facilities no longer send any waste to landfill. Unilever claims the strategy, which has seen 600 of its sites worldwide secure zero waste status, has saved it more than €200m through reduced waste costs and enhanced resource efficiency.
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