In pursuing our corporate goals we place safe manufacturing processes and consideration for the environment high on the agenda.

We’re eco-friendly
All of our plants feature eco-friendly processes and measures to enhance our environment. These include:

• A policy of returnable beverage bottles.
• Recycling of plastic crates and bottles.
• Recycling wooden pallets and cardboard tier sheets.
• Utilising dried grains left over from brewing as cattle feed.
• Banks (Barbados) Breweries Ltd. treats and recycles waste water for use in beautification and factory wash down.
• Our cardboard boxes (gaylords) in which the performs are supplied, are used for exporting PET flake and finished goods.
• At the Barbados Bottling Company cardboard cores for shrink film are returned to the supplier for re-use.
• Duraplast Inc. and B’s Bottle Depot reuse the sugar bags to hold PET flake.
• Plastic Containers Ltd. diverts its chemical drums to Chemical Industries Limited for donation as garbage bins.
• We use grease traps and containment tanks to capture oil / diesel spills if they occur.
• B&B Distribution Ltd. has reduced its fuel usage by 10% with the implementation of a revised delivery system.
• Pine Hill Dairy has converted from ½ gallon HDPE juice to 2-Litre cardboard cartons which are biodegradable.
• Slightly damaged crates are offered to fishermen for use to store their catches.
  

Recycling Plastics Programme
The shift to a large-scale use of PET bottles in our beverage manufacturing has brought significant environmental gain in reducing the heavy water usage associated with glass bottle recycling. On the downside it has brought the substantial challenge of effective disposal of the long-life plastics.

• As part of its operations Plastics Containers Ltd., a PET bottle producing enterprise recycles opaque (HDPE) bottles.
  Duraplast Inc. employs environmentally safe processes to daily transform some 6,000 lbs of PET bottles into durable roofing tiles.
• Duraplast Inc. also regrinds defective tiles, generated in the manufacturing process, as well as cut tiles, returned from job sites, and reuses them in the production of new tiles.
• Currently approximately 85% of all PET bottles produced by Barbados Bottling Company Ltd. are recycled into roofing tiles by Duraplast Inc.
• Plastic concentrate containers are given away to persons for domestic use.
• PCL diverts all PET / HDPE scrap to Duraplast Inc. or B’s Bottle Depot to be converted to flake and then exported or converted to new product.
• Plastic liner bags that are placed in the closure boxes have eliminated the need for BBC to purchase garbage bags.