ABL, Agbogbloshie promote clean environment

As part of efforts by the Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) to help create a clean world, employees and management of the brewery observed the 2016 World Environment Day with a tree planting exercise.

They also donated three skip containers valued at GH¢ 35,000 to the Agblogbloshie Community.

The brewery also organised an environmental care talk at its premises for both employees and members of the community in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Mr Vincent Oliver, the Technical Director of ABL, touching on the relationship between a sustainable environment and ABL’s operations, said ABL’s processes were in line with the best environmental management practices as well as global goals for sustainable development.

“ABL is aware of the harm environmental pollution can cause to the safety and wellbeing of its workers and the communities in which it operates.

“Joining the world to commemorate the day set aside to reflect on critical issues that affect global ecosystem while creating awareness on environmental management is another way to demonstrate ABL’s love for Ghana and the sustainability of the environment.

“Our investment in re-cycling and re-use of our returnable glass bottles and plastic crates; sale of spent grains to piggeries; the sale of our chemical drums and broken pallets for domestic use and making of beer with less water has earned us a three star during a recent SABMiller Global National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA) ranking,” he said.

Mr Oliver said with the completion of the brewery’s effluent treatment plant currently under construction, it would further reduce the carbon footprints and increase efficient use of water and other raw materials.

Mr Samuel Quaye, the Programme Assistant Officer of EPA, said there was the need to reduce global warming by planting trees and making good use of the natural resource to save mother earth for the next generation.

“This year’s theme: “Go Wild for Life,” encourages humanity to celebrate all those animal species under threat through illegal trade in wildlife and take action to help safeguard them for future generations’” he said.

As a subsidiary of SABMiller Plc, one of the largest breweries in the world, ABL is enjoined, among other things, to help create a clean, resilient, and productive world through the reduction of its carbon footprints, efficient use of water and other raw materials.

The donation of the skip containers follows an appeal by the leaders of the Agbogbloshie Community a year ago when ABL’s employees undertook a clean- up exercise in commemoration of the 2015 World Environment Day.

Mr Kabiru Ashong-Katai, Assemblyman for the area, who received the containers, said he was grateful to ABL for the goodwill and said the community would continuously collaborate with the brewery to ensure a clean environment.

Marked annually on June 5, the World Environment Day provides the opportunity for stakeholders to reflect on critical issues that affect global ecosystems while creating awareness on environmental issues.

Mr Kabiru Ashong- Katai, the Assemblyman of Korle Dudor Electoral Area, receiving the skip containers from Mr Vincent Oliver, ABL’s Technical Director