FIVE MINUTES WITH ...
We ' re constantly looking for smallto-medium sized vendors to add to our portfolio of suppliers , but we also know we ' re heavily reliant on technology and innovation to help get us there . On the sustainability side , the challenge is how can we move faster to net zero ?
We ' re working on ways to get closer to net zero . Here at Budweiser Brewing Group , we ’ re using technology and diversity to get us to that end goal .
Q . HOW IMPORTANT IS SUSTAINABILITY TO YOU ?
» Extremely . Two years ago , I co-founded a company called Ocean Bottle , which is designed to prevent 7 billion plastic bottles from entering the ocean . To date , we ’ ve collected more than 450 million plastic bottles .
The idea is to create a waste infrastructure in communities that lack it . In impoverished communities , there ' s no garbage truck to pick up rubbish . People have no solution other than to throw it into a river , which then takes plastic bottles out into the ocean .
With the sale of every Ocean Bottle , 11kg of plastic – the equivalent of 1,000 oceanbound plastic bottles – is collected in impoverished coastal communities where plastic pollution is worst . Plastic collectors can exchange plastic waste for money or credit via blockchain technology to spend on tuition , tech goods , health care and micro-finance .
20 August 2022