Company Description:
Diageo is one of Ireland’s leading drinks businesses with an outstanding collection of beer, wine and spirits brands. The company employs more than 2,200 people at facilities in Dublin, Belfast, Dundalk, Kilkenny, Cork, Sligo, Limerick and Waterford and contributes significantly to approximately 1515,000 other jobs and invests in excess of €500 million annually on wages, materials and services. Today, Diageo’s operations in Ireland are collectively a €1.7billion business bringing the iconic Irish brands, Guinness and Baileys to consumers in over 15150 countries worldwide.
Business Issue:
Founded in 1759, the St. James’s Gate Brewery in the Liberties area of Dublin produces 12 million kegs of Guinness annually. In recent years the 56-acre site has been transformed by an investment programme totaling €300million. The St. James’s Gate Brewery produces approximately 85 tonnes of general waste each month. Until 2003 most of this waste ended up in landfill, an environmentally unsound and unsustainable approach to waste management. In keeping with Diageo’s global environmental policy, Diageo Ireland, embarked on a radical plan to eliminate waste to landfill.
Solution Applied:
A cross-functional team, including representatives from Environment, Purchasing, Finance, and Engineering was formed to drive the project.
In partnership with Greyhound Recycling, a material recycling facility (MRF) was established on-site in 2003. The success of this facility has eliminated waste to landfill at the St. James’s Gate Brewery. Approximately 30% of the waste is now segregated and recycled, especially paper, cardboard, metal and wood. 40% is further segregated and composted, with the remaining 30% used as a fibre fuel substitute.
The project depended on effective two-way communication with staff at the St. James’s Gate Brewery and this was achieved through the existing Environmental Communications Plan, using intranet and email platforms in particular.
Other Diageo facilities in Ireland are gaining from this experience and are moving towards the successful model pioneered at the St. James’s Gate site.
Company Benefits:
Waste management costs have been reduced by approximately €50,000 per annum.
Company reputation as an environmentally responsible company has been significantly enhanced.
Staff are proud of the efforts they have made to make the project a success and team spirit at the St. James’s Gate site has benefited.
Stakeholder Benefits:
Approximately 1000 tonnes of waste per annum is diverted from landfill.
In conjunction with Greyhound Recycling Diageo has successfully implemented a strategy that is now viewed as a model for other large industrial sites.
Many staff members who participated in the success of the project have brought the experience to their domestic or community setting and made significant efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle.
We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. By clicking “Accept”, you consent to the use of all the cookies. However you may visit Cookie Settings to provide a controlled consent.Privacy Policy
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Cookie
Type
Duration
Description
AWSELB
0
15 minutes
This cookie is associated with Amazon Web Services and is used for managing sticky sessions across production servers.
AWSELBCORS
0
15 minutes
AWS.
bcookie
0
2 years
This cookie is set by linkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page.
BIGipServerTethys
1
Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.
bm_sz
1
4 hours
Akamai Bot Manager
bscookie
1
2 years
Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
cf_ob_info
0
1 minute
Used by CloudFare to display a notice in case the website is temporarily unavailable.
cf_use_ob
0
1 minute
Used by CloudFare to display a notice in case the website is temporarily unavailable.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
0
11 months
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary
0
11 months
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non Necessary".
crumb
0
exp_csrf_token
1
2 hours
exp_last_activity
1
1 year
exp_last_visit
1
1 year
exp_tracker
1
50 years ago
fpestid
0
1 year
GPS
0
30 minutes
This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location
IDE
1
2 years
Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
lang
0
This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.
lidc
0
1 day
This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing.
lissc
0
1 year
li_sugr
0
2 months
Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries. LinkedIn.
mnet_session_depth
0
PHPSESSID
0
This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.
sc_anonymous_id
0
9 years
Soundcloud.
test_cookie
0
11 months
This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users' browser supports cookies.
u
0
2 months
uid
0
1 year
This cookie is used to measure the number and behavior of the visitors to the website anonymously. The data includes the number of visits, average duration of the visit on the website, pages visited, etc. for the purpose of better understanding user preferences for targeted advertisments.
UIDR
0
1 year
This cookie is set bu scorecardresearch.com. The cookie is used to tracks the users activity across the internet on the browser such as visit timestamp, IP address, and most recently visited webpages. and may the data send to 3rd party for analysis and reporting to help their clients better understand user preferences.
UserMatchHistory
0
4 weeks
This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences.
viewed_cookie_policy
0
11 months
The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
visitor-id
0
1 year
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
1
5 months
This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.
vuid
0
2 years
These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites.
YSC
1
This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.
_abck
0
1 year
Akamai Bot Manager.
_ga
0
2 years
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gat
0
1 minute
This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites.
_gat_UA-31958458-1
0
1 minute
This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
_gid
0
1 day
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.
__cfruid
1
Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic.
__stid
0
1 year
The cookie is set by ShareThis. The cookie is used for site analytics to determine the pages visited, the amount of time spent, etc.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Preference cookies are used to store user preferences to provide content that is customized and convenient for the users, like the language of the website or the location of the visitor.
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.