Actively responding to the government’s Blue Sky and Clear Water plan, Zhujiang Brewery give great impetus to the use of central heating, clean energy, and renewable energy in industrial parks as substitutes for coals. It adopts advanced technology to develop circular economy, and successively launched five circular economy projects including cross-flow membrane filtration, comprehensive utilization of biogas recovery, and photovoltaic power generation. Among them, the comprehensive utilization of biogas recovery project became the first United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in the domestic beer industry. Project, succeeding in reducing the burden on the ecological environment from the source.
Zhujiang Brewery strengthens its management in energy conservation and emission reduction by establishing an intelligent energy management platform which realizes real-time management of factory energy consumption and provides data support for energy-saving transformation and equipment upgrades, thus effectively consolidating the results of green development. It implements condensate water recycling, saccharification hot water recycling, cooling water recycling and so on. With multiple cascade utilizations of energy such as water and steam, various consumption indicators have continued to decline, and its energy consumption have reached the international advanced level. Due to its achievements, it is rated as a water-saving enterprise in Guangdong Province, and jointly assessed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other national departments as Water Efficiency Leader in the Key Water-using Enterprises in 2020.
For the end treatment of pollutants, Zhujiang Brewery has formulated strict operating procedures, analysis and inspection procedures and three-level management systems to ensure the normal and stable operation of the process. It strengthens the reduction and recycling of solid waste from production, collection, storage, and disposal, achieving recycling rate of resource solid waste is 100%.
To promote the green and low-carbon environmental protection concept to the public, Zhujiang Brewery actively organizes and participates in environmental protection volunteer activities. It opens corporate pollution control facilities to the public which shows the whole process of pollution control, allowing it to accept social supervision and reference learning from various companies, thus mobilizing more companies and individuals to participate in green production and green life.