Employees of Accra Brewery Limited’s (ABL) has embarked on a tree planting exercise to observe the 2016 World Environment Day.

The company also donated three skip containers at the cost of GHC 35,000 to the Agblogbloshie community. 

The purpose–driven efforts by the company is aimed at helping create a clean world.

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

Showing the relationship between a sustainable environment and ABL’s operations, Mr. Vincent Oliver, Technical Director of ABL, said that ABL’s processes are in line with the best environmental management practices as well as the 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 (3) star during a recent SABMiller Global National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA) ranking.  With the completion of our effluent treatment plant, currently constructing we will further reduce our carbon footprints and increase efficient use of water and other raw materials’’ he concluded.

Programme Assistant Officer at the EPA, Mr Samuel Quaye,  who spoke at the interactive environmental care session on the theme emphasized 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 submitted.

As a subsidiary of SABMiller Plc, one of the largest brewers in the world, ABL is enjoined by its sustainable development goals to among other things 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.

Hon. Kabiru Ashong-Katai, Assemblyman for the area who received the containers on behalf of the Agbogbloshie community was impressed with ABL’s goodwill gesture and expressed his delight about the continuous collaboration between the community and the brewery.

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