Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) services
Water Services
To say that water is paramount to the beverage industry would be an understatement. Beverage companies not only rely on water as an essential ingredient in each of their products, but also as a primary source for many of their production processes. Promoting the sustainable use and protection of water is a business imperative that BIER is founded on and its members work collectively to share innovative approaches, tools and methodologies for assessing both the technical and business aspects of water within their operations.Beverage Container Recycling Services
Packaging accounts for the largest percentage of a beverage product’s carbon footprint, between 30% and 70%, depending on the material type of container used, whether aluminum, glass or PET. In addition, approximately 6% of all packaging waste by weight in municipal waste streams is attributed to beverage containers. Recognizing that beverage container recycling has a direct impact on environmental sustainability and climate change, BIER is working to increase the recyclability of product packaging and increase container recovery rates.
Eco-System Services
As our world becomes more industrialized and the human population grows, impacts on biodiversity are accelerating at unprecedented rates, causing a degradation of ecosystem services, or the benefits people receive from ecosystems. Within the beverage sector, recent traction around the concept of ecosystem services has led to greater environmental consciousness among consumers and greater emphasis on natural resource conservation among beverage companies.