MillerCoors mission is to create America's best beer company by focusing on five key responsibilities with set goals for 2015—alcohol responsibility, environmental sustainability, people and communities, sustainable supply chain and ethics, and transparency.
"Water is an essential ingredient in the brewing process, from growing barley to cleaning brew kettles to brewing beer," says Quezada. Conserving water is a main focus for MillerCoors and the company's 2015 water goal is to reduce water usage by 15% across its eight breweries nationwide. MillerCoors currently reports a water-to-beer ratio of 4.11 barrels of water to one barrel of beer, and some brewery locations are significantly below the average.
Though water stewardship continues to be the most pressing area, MillerCoors is also focused on reducing its waste sent to landfill. "We achieved our 2015 waste reduction goal ahead of schedule, and reduced the amount of waste sent to landfill by more than 20% in 2009," Quezada notes. MillerCoors has achieved this goal by finding innovative re-uses for its waste, such as selling leftover barley to local farmers for animal feed or using brewery by-products to fertilize on-site hay fields.
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NewPage is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with $3.6 billion in 2010 net sales. The company operates paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Nova Scotia, Canada. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 4.4 million tons of paper, including 3.1 million tons of coated paper, 1.1 million tons of uncoated paper, and 200,000 tons of specialty paper.
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