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- SEBASTIAN MRINDOKO
TANZANIA Breweries Company (TBL) through its parent company SABMiller has announced steps to be taken to reduce emission of poisonous gases produced by its plants.
TBL Group Managing Director, Mr Roberto
Jarrin, said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that for quite a long, the
company has been supporting water sources preservation efforts and the
process to ensure that available water benefits the surrounding
communities.
“SABMiller, owns a number of alcohol and
non-alcoholic beverage plants including Tanzania-based TBL Group is
practically supporting the resolutions which are in line with company’s
strategies to preserve the environment,” he said in a statement.
Conserving water sources is one of the
2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference resolutions held in Paris,
France earlier this month.
Others include preventing forest
destruction, better land uses which is also one of the company’s goals
to build the world with work force which can responsibly make better
land use.
Mr Jarrin said in implementing the goal,
over 350 barley farmers have been benefiting through reliable market of
their barley sold to the company which is one of TBL’s strategy to
empower locals through buying their products.
The company proposal to support
conference resolutions on climate change hints that, it has already
taken some steps in reducing pollution resulted from gases produces in
various stages of beer production.
The company has set a target to ensure
that production is made without negative impact to the environment by
2020. This will involve reduction of harmful gases into the space in the
areas it operates for 50 per cent and until now the target has been
achieved by 35 per cent since its inception in 2008.
Despite the fact that, beer production
does not produce a lot of harmful gases to the environment as it is in
motor vehicles and oil production plants, SABMiller strongly supports
the resolutions and would work to make a world a free environmental
destruction zone.
As a matter of concern to the
environment, the company has created online link to help to explain how
climate changes affects company’s business and how can play a role in
reducing the impact of climate change. He said SABMiller is one of the
companies in the fore front in the fight against environmental
destruction.
Apart from agreements and strategies
established by the countries, big companies operating in various parts
of the world with environmental protection policies were able to adopt
the agreements to assist in the global climatic change fight which
adversely affects the environment
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