The Refined Brewery. Richard Heathcote. Sustainable Development Manager. Heineken UK Ltd.

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1 The Refined Brewery Richard Heathcote Sustainable Development Manager Heineken UK Ltd.

2 CONTENT Who are Heineken? Context Waste or unused resource? Examples Logical Conclusion

3 Who are Heineken UK - Company UK s largest brewer & cider maker ~3500 employees including pub company Part of Heineken NV, world s 3 rd largest brewer

4 Who are Heineken UK - Production Production 12.4 million hectolitres roughly equivalent to around 5,000 baths per day or 3,000 standard sized swimming pools per year Heineken own data, 2009/10

5 Who are Heineken UK Raw Materials MALT 200,000 te/yr APPLES APPLES 100,000 te/yr YEAST HOPS WHEAT (syrups) 200,000 te/yr WATER ~7*10 9 l Heineken own data, 2009/10 Pictures: humptydumpty.typepad.com,

6 Who are Heineken UK - Packaging Cans >20,000 tonnes Glass >100,000 tonnes Total Keg/Casks in circulation >2,000,000 Board/Paper >10,000 tonnes Plastics film & hi-cone ~2,000 tonnes PET ~1,000 tonnes Heineken own data, 2009/10

7 Who are Heineken UK - Utilities Energy Thermal 62.2 mj/hl Electrical 8.9 kwh/hl Water In product 0.95 hl/hl In breweries 4.35 hl/hl Total embedded hl/hl 1 Waste Wet tonnes per annum 126,000 te Dry tonnes per annum 18,500 te Amount recycled 96.2% 1 Heineken own data, 2009/10

8 CONTEXT

9 Sustainability for Heineken As a consumer brands company we can only exist with society s permission As a manufacturing company we use the Earth to provide our raw materials and dispose of our wastes As part of a business we must deliver shareholder value (money) to survive By keeping them in balance we can achieve sustainable development

10 Brewing a Better Future In April this year Heineken launched its global sustainability strategy under the name Brewing a Better Future A wide ranging program of more than 20 initiatives, being coordinated and implemented across our global markets, with targeted achievement by 2020 Organised into six key areas.

11 Brewing a Better Future

12 WASTE, or UNUSED RESOURCE

13 There s no such thing as waste only undiscovered by-product

14 What is Waste? unwanted matter or material of any type, often that which is left after useful substances or parts have been removed Definition: Cambridge Dictionary

15 Waste Hierarchy (typical) Reduce Reuse Recycle Energy Recovery Disposal

16 Waste Hierarchy (to drive value) Avoid Reduce Reuse Recycle Recover Energy components Recovery Down Disposal cycle

17 Looked at in another way Avoid Reduce Avoidable Waste Systemic Waste Reuse Recycle Recover components Wasted Waste Down cycle Energy Recovery Disposal Undefined

18 Combined together Avoid Reduce Avoidable Waste Systemic Waste Reuse Recycle Recover components Downcycle Wasted Waste = Unused Resource Energy Recovery Disposal Undefined

19 Innovative Approaches Zero Waste (ref. Industrial Symbiosis (ref.

20 What is zero waste Not a literal term, more a shift in thinking from man to nature Nature does not waste anything Nature recycles everything Nature clusters by ecosystems

21 What is Industrial Symbiosis Again from the biological world - a systems approach a relationship between two types of animals or plants [or businesses] in which each provides for the other the conditions necessary for its continued existence

22 EXAMPLES

23 Slug Bait Manufacture

24 Polyphenols Extraction for Cosmetics

25 Tannin Extraction for Leather

26 Extracting Cellulose

27 Anaerobic Digestion to Produce Biogas

28 Fermentation CO2 Recovery (enhanced algal growth)

29 And we still make great beer too!

30 CONCLUSION

31 We re really looking at Bio Refining Can we afford to throw away anything that we harvest spent grain & apple pomace used for cattle feed? hop bines left to rot? Sustainable societies use everything possible Can we get all of those by-products? What would it take?

32 Brewery to Integrated Bio Refinery Malt Hops water energy Bio Refinery fermentation, extraction, refining water gas Effluent treatment sludge alcohol proteins Filter retentate Spent grain cellulose hemicellulose Spirulina alcohol beer? proteins bio-polymers? fuel alcohol food

33 What might it look like End of pipe solution?

34 Or true refinery?

35 What are the design criteria? End of Pipe? Off site? On site? Batch or continuous? Material handling? Use of standard components? Scalable, modular and flexible? By-product creation? Low carbon/ghg throughout (in build and use) Water and heat recovery; where how can they be used?

36 What are the commercial challenges? Our industry, are we Brewer s who make beer Market led companies who own brands Zero waste refineries who process (malted) barley Or all of these? Assuming we can build a biorefinery does it payback? CAPEX/OPEX and Operating profit? Fragmented markets and associated overhead? One biorefinery plant Is it one business or separate businesses? Concept of cooperative ownership?

37 Has it already been done?

38 Has it already been done? 26 th May 2010 Chempolis to Supply 3 formico Biorefineries to China Finland-based Chempolis has signed an agreement with Tianjin Jiuqian Paper Co Ltd. to supply three formico biorefineries. The new plants are scheduled to start up in The value of the order exceeds 60 million. (US$74 million). The technology is a third-generation effluent-free, low-carbon technology that is selfsufficient in terms of its energy requirement and capable of fully converting cellulosic biomass into a variety of bio-based products. The technology makes use of a new biosolvent and does not need sulphur- or chlorine-based chemicals, which minimizes water consumption and enables chemicals and water to be completely recovered.

39 Has it already been done? Not in Brewing - Yet