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Carlsberg Northampton Brewery now zero to landfill

Carlsberg is the fastest growing company in the brewing industry and want to grow responsibly with the aim of being recognised as an environmentally responsible company. Within Carlsberg UK's Corporate Social Responsibility Programme a key focus area is reducing waste and promoting recycling within all of its UK operations.

It made perfect sense focus attention on Northampton Brewery, one of the largest in Western Europe that brews many types of beer and packages them in bottles, aluminum cans and kegs.

The aims:

• Educate employees

• Ensure Legal and Corporate compliance

• Improve recycling percentage rates

• Send no waste to landfill within 3 years

• Reduce costs

To achieve their stretching targets Carlsberg UK needed to select the right partner to help them educate employees, improve recycling levels and reduce their environmental impact.

Working in partnership with Cory Environmental Recycling services Carlsberg UK Northampton have implemented many waste handling improvements.

The partnership began by Cory completing a waste audit of all processes and procedures. Local Brewery management were then engaged in the findings and a tailor made solution designed and implemented.

One of the key changes was to instate an onsite operative to coordinate day to day operations and also identify further potential improvements.

Working in partnership also means that both parties are involved in daily discussions and have the overall same aim.

Matt Winterburn, Carlsberg UK's Safety Health and Environment Manager said: “In a growing business its is sometimes difficult to continue to reduce your environmental impact.

Working in partnership with such a proactive company like Cory Environmental Recycling Services and learning from their knowledge and experience has helped us, Carlsberg UK, in continuing to reduce our environmental impact within the society we are operating in”

For further information or queries concerning this or other service solutions from Cory Environmental please contact our National Operations Centre in Telford:

Telephone: 0870 850 307

E-mail: servicedesk@coryenvironmental.co.uk

Or visit: www.recycling-services.co.uk