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.

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 are working to establish 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 divisions 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

Our Montreal Brewery was awarded the Leadership Award for Metering and Tracking from the Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation (CIPEC).
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.

2008 Energy & Water Reduction Goals

4% reduction in energy & water utilization throughout the enterprise compared to 2007
The US business has set a 12% emissions reduction goal indexed to production by 2010 (baseline year 2005)

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 three 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, Coors is proactively seeking to reduce GHG emissions and has joined 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.