Environment
The Beverage Industry’s Environmental Record
The beverage industry is proud of its longstanding commitment to a clean environment. Our members are constantly searching for ways to minimize the environmental impact of our business. In areas of energy and water usage, vehicle emissions, and generation of solid waste, we work hard to be as environmentally friendly as possible.
How We Contribute
We care about our impact on the environment and the beverage industry’s operations reflect this in everything we do. Our environmental initiatives are many and varied:
- State of the art wastewater treatment and reuse of process water from manufacturing and distribution facilities,
- Installation of solar roofing at bottling plants to enhance energy efficiency,
- High efficiency refrigeration technology,
- Reducing product packaging through “lightweighting” and reuse of transportation packaging,
- Highly efficient, centralized production and distribution systems for our products, which maximize product efficiencies and minimize energy use and fleet emissions,
- Use of packaging materials that are recoverable in most recycling programs around the country,
- Long-standing use of post-consumer recycled content in aluminum and glass beverage containers and increasing use of post-consumer content in PET containers, and
- Focus group tested consumer awareness campaigns that increase recycling participation and recycling rates.
Environmental stewardship is a critical part of our operating philosophy. Beverage producers have always been environmental leaders and we will continue to innovate and undertake the very best environmental practices to be good to our planet.
