Our business practices embrace environmental stewardship

At Molson Coors, we carefully consider environmental stewardship in all of our operations and packaging. 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 and track our progress.

Energy from Waste Beer

In Golden, Colorado, USA, millions of pounds of spent yeast and waste beer from the beer brewing operation are converted to some two million gallons of ethanol annually, and then shipped directly to local refineries to be blended with gasoline. The “waste” is then made into animal feed.

Learn More – Beer Brewer Converts Waste to Beer www.iptv.org/video/detail.cfm/1957/mtom_20080418_3333_feature [video link]

Water Conservation

Water is a precious resource globally and for us it is essential to the brewing process. Without great water, we couldn’t make great beer. Our stakeholders expect us to use water responsibly and we take water stewardship very seriously. In September 2008 Peter Swinburn, CEO Molson Coors Brewing Company, signed the UN CEO Water Mandate further demonstrating the company's commitment to water stewardship.

Learn More – www.molsoncoors.com/responsibility/environmental-responsibility/water

Waste Reduction and Recycling

Molson Coors Brewing Company strives to reduce our environmental impact by minimizing the amount of waste we generate and recycling and reusing materials wherever possible.

Learn More – www.molsoncoors.com/responsibility/environmental-responsibility/waste

Environmental Stewardship

We have developed overall standards for energy conservation, water stewardship and waste reduction/recycling at our breweries in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

We have implemented an Environmental, Health and Safety Management System in each of our business units which apply to all operations and processes. A 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.

Over the past year we have made significant progress in our energy reduction plans and target setting both at a corporate and business unit level.

Recent Energy Efficiency Awards

In May 2009 BC Hydro presented Molson's Vancouver brewery with the top award in the Power Smart Excellence Awards 2009 - the Power Smart Leader Award.
Our Montreal Brewery was awarded the Leadership Award for Metering and Tracking from the Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation (CIPEC) in 2008.
In early 2008 Excel Energy awarded Coors Brewing Company the winner of the Overall Electricity Savings category at the 2008 Energy Efficiency Expo.
Our new Shenandoah brewery was acknowledged for a Governor's Environmental Excellence award during Environment Virginia 2008 conference. The award recognizes Coors-Shenandoah for its environmental project to utilize methane in two biogas boilers increasing the temperature of the BVF's and thus enhancing the treat ability of wastewaters.

2009 Energy & Water Reduction Goals

4% improvement in energy & water efficiency throughout the enterprise.
The US business, MillerCoors, has set a 15% reduction in total energy use by 2015, baseline 2009.

Learn More – 2008 Objectives [http://www.molsoncoors.com/responsibility/objectives]

Our Carbon Footprint

At Molson Coors Brewing Company we are engaged in a number of initiatives to use energy more efficiently, thus reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by the combustion of fossil fuels.

For the past four years, we have participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project, an independent, non-profit organization that collects climate-related information from leading global companies and provides it to the investment community and the public. In the US, MillerCoors is proactively seeking to reduce GHG emissions and is a member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders Program, an industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop long-term comprehensive climate change strategies. Coors has completed a thorough GHG emissions inventory.