Environmental Stewardship
At Molson Coors, we believe that good business practices embrace environmental stewardship. For that reason, we are committed to manufacture and package our products with care for the environment. It is an integral part of excelling in the beer business and living our values. In order to fulfill this commitment we are putting systems into place that expand our ability to measure our performance as we continually seek opportunities for improvement.
Since the merger of Molson Brewing Company with Coors Brewing Company in 2005, we have been working to establish overall standards for energy conservation, water stewardship and waste reduction/recycling at our 11 breweries in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. We recognize that our full impact also includes assessing issues such as operating administrative offices and U.S. container and malting operations more efficiently and looking at ways in which we can offer employee commuting options and decrease travel. Although we have made some progress in these areas in the way of reduced energy use in offices, office materials recycling, use of teleconference facilities, providing public transportation passes and telecommuting options, we have not yet addressed all of these issues in a comprehensive manner.
“We are setting internal targets that will help us achieve continuous improvement throughout the enterprise,” said Greg Wade, Molson Coors Brewing Company Global Chief Supply Chain Officer. “Some of our infrastructure is older, which presents certain challenges for us. We have many opportunities to improve our environmental performance.”
We have implemented an Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) Management System in each of our divisions which apply to all operations and processes involved in the manufacture and delivery of Molson Coors products, from procurement of materials through delivery to the consumer, including contract operations.
Our overall objectives commit us to:
- Continually reduce environmental impacts
- Ensure regulatory compliance
- Follow good manufacturing practices
- Deliver process and product consistency
- Assure package appearance and integrity
- Ensure consumer safety
- Prevent EH&S incidents
A technical compliance scorecard is in place to record corrective action reports, environmental incidents, energy and water usage, solid waste generation and recycling, lost time severity and incident rates and safety participation.
A corporate-wide Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety Policy was first adopted in 2005 and revised in 2008.
2007 Facility Environmental Performance Data
| Water usage (HL) | Solid waste (tonnes) | Energy usage (MJ) | CO2 Emissions (tonnes) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Brewery | 90,795,484 | 25,096 | 3,150,155,554 | 502,243 |
| Memphis | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shenandoah | 31,689,477 | 5,218 | 702,284,466 | 70,451 |
| Rocky Mountain Bottle Company | 1,339,512 | 17,826 | 1,468,182,587 | 176,956 |
| Rocky Mountain Metal Container – Cans | 6,424,697 | 2,237 | 873,245,753 | 144,021 |
| Rocky Mountain Metal Container – Ends | 85,225 | 24 | 48,659,702 | 10,538 |
| Golden Malting** | 15,001,849 | n/a | 1,005,025,495 | 139,204 |
| CBC Grain & Misc. Facilities | n/a | n/a | n/a | 8,900 |
| Vancouver | 10,374,653 | 1,427 | 226,001,671 | 9,126 |
| Edmonton | 1,708,294 | 2,517 | 70,513,023 | 7,232 |
| Toronto | 20,064,990 | 23,314 | 687,542,086 | 37,185 |
| Montreal | 30,481,682 | 21,556 | 883,978,271 | 33,546 |
| St. Johns | 4,520,023 | 2,466 | 67,373,236 | 4,723 |
| Alton | 6,135,162 | 159 | 138,532,681 | 11,773 |
| Burton | 30,284,013 | 2,737 | 891,741,979 | 72,418 |
| Tadcaster | 6,536,326 | 255 | 163,299,285 | 13,341 |
| Shobnall | 903,519 | 89 | 418,029,803 | 25,251 |
| CBL Misc. Facilities | n/a | n/a | n/a | 2,373 |
* Memphis brewery was closed in 2007
** Golden Malting Solid Waste tonnes has been combined with Golden Brewery Solid Waste tonnes.
CBC - Coors Brewing Company
CBL - Coors Brewers Limited