Suffolk based brewer Adnams has won the 2007 Carbon Trust / Daily Telegraph award.
Its actions include:
- Lightweighting its bottles: A 500ml beer bottle weighs in at 299g, making it around a third lighter than previous efforts and cutting Adnams' carbon emissions by 415 tonnes per year.
- Building a new 4,400m2 low carbon distribution centre built with lime and hemp, with a 'living' roof lined with sedum, or plants.
Adnams is also in the process of modernising its brewery and is in the process of commissioning a new brewstream that will divert steam to reheat the next brew instead of into the atmosphere.
The system improves steam recovery by 90 per cent, inevitably cutting down on energy bills. Adnams has also set up an internal Action Group to educate staff about the need to save energy.
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