Dive Summary:
- MillerCoors took its fifth brewery landfill-free with its Golden Brewery, eliminating an average of nearly 149 tons of waste monthly.
- This is a major accomplishment for the largest brewery in the U.S., as no other breweries of any size have earned landfill-free status.
- MillerCoors began its efforts at the Golden Brewery in 2011 with almost $1 million in new infrastructure and equipment, and it now resuses or recycles 100% of waste--including residual refuse, which is sent to a waste-to-energy facility.
From the article:
... "Environmental stewardship is part of our company DNA, and we challenge ourselves daily to be more sustainable throughout our operations," said MillerCoors CEO, Tom Long. "Through our commitment to continuously improving, we've found a way to eliminate trips to the landfill and developed a zero-waste model that's scalable to our other facilities." ...
