ABL marks World Environmental Day

The management and employees of Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) have sensitised workers and the public to the need for a safe and sustainable environment.

The sensitisation programme, which was held on the company’s premises at Adabraka in Accra, targeted ABL employees and residents of the Agbogbloshie community.

The event, in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was in commemoration of World Environment Day.  

As part of the programme, employees and management of the company embarked on a tree planting exercise on the company’s premises to help promote a green environment.

The company also donated rubbish containers, valued at GH¢35,000, to the Agbogbloshie community to help enhance sanitation there.

Conscious of the environment

Speaking at the programme, the Technical Director of ABL, Mr Vincent Oliver, said the company’s operations were in line with best environmental management practices, as well as global goals for sustainable development. 

“Joining the world to commemorate the day set aside to reflect on critical issues that affect the global ecosystem, while creating awareness of environmental management, is another way to demonstrate ABL’s love for Ghana and the environment,” he said. 

He explained that the company’s commitment to sustainable operations had earned it a three-star award in the SABMiller Global National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA) ranking held recently.

He mentioned its investment in recycling and reuse of returnable glass bottles and plastic crates, the sale of spent grains to piggeries and chemical drums and broken pallets for domestic use and brewing beer with less water as some of the approaches the company was using to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment.  

‘Save wildlife’

A Programme Assistant Officer at the EPA, Mr Samuel Quaye, said the theme for World Environment Day: “Go Wild for Life”, was intended to encourage humanity to celebrate all those animal species under threat through illegal trade in wildlife.

He said it was also a call for a worldwide campaign to take strong action to curb the illegal trade in wildlife that was threatening the biodiversity of our home planet.

He emphasised the need to reduce global warming by planting trees and making good use of resources in the environment.

He noted that there was the need to protect forests and trees because they were habitats for wildlife, adding that while some survived on trees, others were covered by the shade formed by trees.