BREWERS Tennent’s has announced plans to invest £14 million on eco-friendly initiatives. Dropping single-use plastic packaging, creating a new waste water plant and signing the UK Plastics Pact are just some of the plans slated for the Glasgow -based beer maker.
The typical plastic rings which package the company’s cans will be scrapped in favour of cardboard by the end of the year. The firm has also pledged to go carbon neutral by 2025 and to start work on a carbon capture facility at its Wellpark site, which will save the equivalent of 27,000 flights between Glasgow and London every year in emissions.
Martin Doogan, group engineering manager at Tennent’s parent company C&C, said: “Our commitment is to lasting environmental change; in our company, in our industry and beyond.”
The company has linked with the 2050 Climate Group, which aims to empower young people to take climate change action.
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