Bacardi Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda, has announced it has honored the environmental achievements of its employees and facilities with the Second Annual Bacardi Ltd. Good Spirited award.
The recipients of the award by category are:
- Production Facility Improvement – Tultitlán, Mexico, for its multifacility "Clean and Lean" programs. The Federal Environment Protection Attorney's Office (PROFEPA) bestowed "Clean Industry" certificates for all three of Bacardi’s Mexico facilities.
- Production Facility Sustainability Project – Co-won by the Cataño, Puerto Rico, facility for decreasing fuel oil consumption by 35 percent and by the India Bacardi rum facilit for saving 315 kilograms of CO2 GHG emissions per ton of glass recycled.
- Sustainable Office – Arandas, Mexico, for an 83 percent reduction in CO2 GHG emissions by consolidating 12 offices into one larger office. The office also has gone as paperless as possible, changed over to solar-powered lighting and use water-free toilets.
- Partnership – Bacardi USA Supply Chain and Ryder System Inc., Miami, for reducing carbon emissions by more than 20 percent, reducing road shipments from Bacardi’s Jacksonville, Florida, bottling facility by? 35 percent and reducing the weight of packaging by more than 7 percent.
- Green Champion – Bacardi Trade Advocacy Director Ian McLaren for leading a no-straws campaign at Bacardi’s North America regional headquarters office in Coral Gables, Florida.
"Our Good Spirited initiative is a uniting campaign because regional successes stimulate and encourage more reductions within our global infrastructure and motivate others with the desire to do even more," says Jim Gallagher, chief communications officer for Bacardi. " The out-of-the-box strategies demonstrate the ingenuity of our corporate culture to reduce the company's carbon footprint and the reductions and savings from these employee-led initiatives increase, remarkably, every year."
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