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Kenya: EABL Signs Contract With Waste Handler to Collect Beer Cans
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Business Daily (Nairobi)
13 July 2008
Posted to the web 14 July 2008
George Omondi
As the Ministry of Environment moves to tighten laws for firms operating around Nairobi, the East African Breweries has signed a Sh2 million partnership agreement with a waste recycling company to mop up its used cans in the city and other towns.
On Friday, a director with Greenloop International, Jai Shah said the company operating in Nairobi, Nakuru and Mombasa will now expand to major towns once the new business line picks up.
The firm that recycles plastics pay Sh45 per kilogramme of used aluminium cans. Recycled materials are used to make utensils and crockery.
"We have decided to allow other Kenyans to make money from these cans instead of leaving them carelessly as a nuisance to everyone in the environment," Ken Kariuki, the EABL's corporate affairs director said during the signing of the partnership.
On Wednesday last week, Environment minister, John Michuki cautioned individuals and firms around Nairobi against indiscriminate disposal of refuse and discharging effluence carelessly into the Nairobi rivers of Ngong', Mathare and Nairobi.
The minister added his voice to robust calls earlier made by the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) putting polluters of the rivers on notice. The Nairobi rivers are an eyesore that Mr Michuki announced recently that a whopping Sh16 billion was needed to clean them.
Nema has issued a three-month notice to firms located near the rivers and residents that they could be moved once the major clean-up project gets off the starting blocks.
Mr Kariuki said their partnership with Greenloop was part of EABL's ongoing Sh500 million Green Goals campaign through which the giant brewer aims at radically reducing its energy usage, significantly cutting pollution and minimising the environmental impacts of all its products and operations by 2010.
"Recycling and energy management not only reduces our carbon footprint but also our operating costs," said Mr Kariuki.
Towards the end of June, EABL launched its Green Goals with the commissioning of a Sh250 million effluent treatment plant and a tree planting campaign targeting 100,000 seedlings.
It is estimated the tree planting drive is now halfway with footprints along Ndakaini Dam, Mau, Ngong', Karura in Kenya and Mpigi and Namanve in Uganda.
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Firms are taking environmental campaigns as key parts of their Corporate Social Responsibility.
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