Energy
In 2005, we introduced the Heineken World Class
Manufacturing Programme, which concentrates
on all aspects of production management.
Environmental performance measurement
and improvement is part of this programme.
Common environmental issues, such as
greenhouse effect, ozone-layer depletion,
acidification and nutrification, are included
in five main environmental parameters, which
represent the most important risks and
opportunities of our production activities.
These parameters are:
1. Thermal energy consumption
2. Electricity consumption - reductions in energy
consumption totals can help to decrease C02
emissions and limit the effect of cost increases
(for example due to C02 emissions trading)
3. Water consumption - important for reducing
our dependency on the availability of water,
for neutralising cost increases and for limiting
the discharge of waste-water
4. Discharges of waste - encourage recycling of
as much of our residual materials as possible in
order to prevent landfill and reduce the cost of
waste discharge. The result is expressed in the
quantity of non-recycled waste
5. The Eco Care Indicator - a complementary
parameter that incorporates environmental
management, renewable energy use, air
emissions, waste-water pollution prevention
and high-quality recycling of by-products.
As part of our monitoring system, for every
production site the performance on all five
indicators is measured and plotted in a pentagon,
which also shows potential improvements. All
scores (except for the Eco Care Indicator which is
measured annually) are monitored on a quarterly
basis. Our production units take action to achieve
their targets as part of their three-year plans.
Internal benchmarking and the exchange of best
practices help all production units to improve
their performance. On each of these five
performance parameters we score on a scale
that ranges from 'poor' to 'best in class'; then
aggregate the five results to achieve one final
score for our overall environmental performance.
For the whole company, our performance score
shows the following pentagon:
We were able to improve all environmental
parameters of which the details for energy and
water are explained in the paragraphs that follow.
More information about the parameters can be
found on the Heineken International website.
Thermal
100% energy
Electricity
Eco Care
Indicator
Non-recycled
ind. waste
Water
Gap 2006
2006
2005
r\Q Heineken N.V.
\/OSustainability Report 2006
