A greener alcohol initiative
WILLIAM CHASE our roastery ’ s electricity is now from renewable sources and we started a partnership with GENeco who recycle our waste coffee grounds and chaff into bio-fertiliser and biomethane . Just three months of recycling this waste is the environmental equivalent of taking a car off the road for six months .” their environmental impact and take action to reduce , reuse or recycle wherever possible ,” says Extract ’ s Marketing Manager , Gemma Cross . “ It ’ s about doing what ’ s right , instead of what ’ s easy . To us , this means big things like retrofitting a custom-built afterburner to one of our roasters to eliminate VOCs ( volatile organic compounds ) from our emissions , but also the smaller things too , like choosing sustainable suppliers and reducing waste . We have recently moved energy supplier so 90 % of
A greener alcohol initiative
With production volumes in the region of billions of litres every year , it ’ s clear that alcoholic drink production requires vast amounts of raw materials . The process of making malted barley , which is used in beer and whisky for example , requires around 600 kWh of heating energy per tonne and global production stands at roughly 30mn tonnes per year . To put this into perspective , according to some sources , this requires a similar amount of energy as nuclear power plants across the world produce in two days .
However , great efforts are being made to address some of these issues in the alcohol industry . UK firm Chase Distillery is at the vanguard of environmental initiatives . It has recently welcomed the addition of biomass boiler ‘ Huxley ’ which will fuel
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