Brewing a Platinum Zero Waste Program Cheri Chastain Sustainability Manager
Defining Sustainability Social Equity Healthy Environment Economic Stability
Our Sustainability Department Maintain existing projects and programs Recycling/composting, monitoring solar panels & fuel cells, hazardous waste management, biodiesel production, training programs, greenhouse gas inventory Look for efficiency improvements Work with all departments Provide research and advice Education Employees, consumers, peers
Why is Zero Waste Important to SNBC? Employee Engagement Reduce landfill contributions Preserve natural resources and keep materials in production cycles Avoids disposal costs Revenue stream Reduce GHG emissions Create jobs
Drivers: SNBC Zero Waste Goal Improve environmental health by reducing landfill contribution, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustaining natural resources, and preventing the release of harmful chemicals into land, water and air Save money by reducing utilities costs and resource consumption and to provide a revenue stream by selling commodities
Potential Wastes Energy Compressed Air Employee time/productivity Miscellaneous solid waste Water Packaging Materials Food Parts/Service Money And most importantly BEER
Approach to Sustainability Focus on Zero Waste Goal Close Loops Auditing/benchmarking Tracking Technology implementation or process/behavior change
2013 Resource Recovery Over 52,000 tons diverted from landfill 106 tons to landfill = 99.8% diversion Avoided ~$6.2 million in disposal fees ~$980,000 in revenue 95.43% Diversion excluding spent grain
Progress Over Time 100% 90% 80% Diversion Rate Excluding Spent Grain 93% 94% 95% 90% 88% 79% 70% 60% 62% 50% 45% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
LEED Tracking 100.00% 100.00% Mills River Construction Diversion 90.00% 80.00% 77.78% 91.12% 89.46% 85.25% 83.93% 83.15% 77.78% 70.00% 60.98% 69.67% 67.37% 67.51% 73.33% 60.00% 60.59% 63.50% 59.34% 50.00% 40.00% 30.00%
Performing Audits
Reuse is always better than recycling! Not So Good Choice... Pallets Boxes Packaging Materials Paper Burlap Employee Classifieds Great Choice!
Break Rooms Reduce + Reuse + Recycle + Rot = Zero Waste
Recycling saves money? Total lbs Diverted Avoided Disposal Cost Revenue Cardboard 713,916 $45,691 $29,286 Plastics* 134,536 $8,610 $8,805 Paper 104,029 $6,658 $0 Scrap Metal 50,100 $3,206 $13,557 Scrap Glass 718,048 $45,955 $1,262 HotRot 650,371 $41,624 $0 Co-Mingle Recycling 14,296 $915 $0 Other Recycling 16,616 $1,063 $7,859 Wood** 265,480 $16,991 $0 Green Waste 1,759,320 $112,596 $0 2013 4,426,712 $283,310 $60,769
Setting Up Collections Never leave a bin alone! Color coding helps Clear labeling is important Bins don t have to be expensive whatever you have works!
Setting Up Collections We try not to get upset when people ignore your labels!! We just treat it as another opportunity to educate
Recycling Spent Grains, Hops, & Yeast
Recycling Glass Cans & Bottles Cardboard Shrink Wrap Paper-White & Mixed Plastic Strapping Packaging Material Batteries Light bulbs Computers Scrap Metal & Wire Burlap Compost / Green Waste Construction debris
Closing the Compost Loop Discards are collected from restaurant, break rooms, and some brewing operations Organics are composted onsite in the HotRot Finished compost is used in onsite restaurant garden Food from the garden is served in the Restaurant 2 weeks later we have stable compost!
HotRot Composter
100.00% Tracking Progress 2014 Percentage of Waste Recycled The percentage of SNBC's solid waste diverted from the landfill through recycling and composting efforts 2014 Goal = 99.80% 2013 = 99.80% 2014 2014 YTD 2014 Goal 2013 99.90% 99.87% 99.80% 99.81% 99.79% 99.80% 99.79% 99.76% 99.77% 99.75% 99.85% 99.80% 99.84% 99.83% 99.83% 99.82% 99.81% 99.81% 99.79% 99.80% 99.76% 99.70% 99.60% 99.61% 99.50% Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Refining Tracking Metrics 2014 Percentage of Waste Recycled Excluding Spent Grain and Yeast The percentage of SNBC's solid waste (excluding spent grain and yeast) diverted from the landfill through recycling and composting efforts 2014 Goal = 96.00% 2013 = 95.35% 100.00% 2014 2014 YTD 2014 Goal 2013 97.50% 97.27% 95.00% 96.03% 96.01% 95.80% 95.49% 94.96% 96.06% 95.76% 95.35% 95.20% 95.22% 96.00% 94.83% 95.83% 96.58% 96.26% 96.00% 92.50% 93.35% 93.69% 91.03% 90.00% 87.50% 85.00% Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Bulk Transportation
Biodiesel Production
Fleet Upgrades
Education
Social Sustainability - Community
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Closing the Biogas Loop - Chico Spent brewing process water is pretreated onsite. The first treatment phase is an anaerobic digester. The biogas is recovered, cleaned up, compressed and used to offset the natural gas needed for our boilers. Boilers provide the heat source in order to boil wort.
Energy Efficiency Heat recovery Fuel cells Boilers Brew kettles Into fermentation Lighting, equipment and electronics upgrades Water savings = electricity savings = cost savings Education and Monitoring
Water Conservation Automation Flow Meters Dry lube switch in packaging (from a water based lube) Hose bib controls Drip irrigation and smart controls Behavior
BBL of Water per BBL of Beer BBL Beer Produced 7 Trending Water Use BBLs of Water Purchased and BBLs of Waste Water per BBL of Beer Produced purchased waste water BBL Beer Produced 1,200,000 6 6.02 5.83 5.46 1,000,000 5 5.00 4.80 4.63 4.64 800,000 4 3.87 3.71 3 3.19 2.88 2.71 2.61 2.49 600,000 2 400,000 1 200,000 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 0
Zero Waste Lessons Learned Educate, educate, educate Use the buddy system (think creatively) Find metrics that are right for you Once you have your metrics, be transparent employees can make or break progress! Set realistic goals Remember zero waste is a team effort!
Cheers! Cheri@SierraNevada.com (530) 893-3520
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