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Reporting basis of non-financial indicators
Number of production sites with zero waste to landfill
Percentage of water-stressed sites with 100% or more water balance
Brew a Better World 2030 Strategy
Environmental
Social
Responsible
Disclosures
Introduction Context
Foundation
Environmental - Maximise circularity
Introduction
Environmental - Towards healthy watersheds
Reporting basis of non-financial indicators
Zero waste to landfill for all our production sites by 2025
Fully balance water used in our products in water-stressed areas by 2030
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Key definitions
- Landfill free site: A site is considered to be landfill free in case less than 2% of the waste (in kilograms) of that site is sent to landfill.
- Waste: A material, substance, or by-product eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process. The majority of our production waste
comprises of organic co-products like brewers’ grain, surplus yeast, anaerobic sludge from wastewater, spent kieselguhr and spent alcohol.
- Waste destinations include reuse, human consumption, animal feed, material recycling, compost/soil improvement, energy (biogas), combustion with energy recovery,
combustion without energy recovery.
- Landfill: deposit into or on to land, deep injection, surface impoundment (e.g. discard into pits, ponds or lagoons), release into water bodies, permanent storage (e.g. containers
in a mine); sanitary landfills, all waste which is not reused, recycled or combusted/incinerated, all waste brought to landfill by parties contracted by us, dump and/or waste with
unknown waste destination are also considered to be landfilled.
Key definitions
- Water stress: A territory is considered water stressed when it withdraws 25% or more of its renewable freshwater resources (UN Water 2021).
- Water balancing: Water balancing is redressing the balance in water-stressed areas between the amount of water we source from the watershed and the amount that is not
returned because it is used in our products, and loss through evaporation.
- Water-stressed area: We identify water-stressed area through a three-step screening:
- A site water security self-assessment that is completed by operating companies annually;
- Global Water Risk Screening that is led by Global Sustainable Production and supported by Global Sustainable Development every five years;
- Source Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) by a third party with experience in hydrology for shortlisted sites is conducted after step two. SVA is a compilation, review and
validation of scientific data in relation to quantity, quality, accessibility and local capabilities, has an inventory and analysis of water-related risks, stakeholder mapping and
proposed list of solutions.
- For reporting of this KPI make use of the Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting method as published by the World Resources Institute.
Baseline:
- N/A
Baseline:
- N/A
Heineken
N.V.
Annual
Report
2023
Key performance indicator
Measurement/units
- of landfill free sites compared to the total number of sites.
Key performance indicator
Measurement/units
- Percentage of water-stressed sites with 100% or more water balance compared to the total of water-stressed sites.
Scope:
- All production sites of consolidated entities
with more than 20 khl volume produced on
an annual basis.
Scope:
- All water-stressed production sites of
consolidated entities with more than 20 khl
volume produced on an annual basis.
- Currently 32 water-stressed sites are
identified.
