MillerCoors Albany Plant Sets New Conservation Records

Thursday, June 12th, 2014

Water and energy use at Albany's MillerCoors brewery reaches record lows.

In 2013, for the first time, the plant recycled, reused, or reclaimed all waste from their production and sent nothing to the landfill.

The plant also lowered the amount of water they use for the third year in a row... now using only 3 barrels of water to make one barrel of beer.       

Plant officials say they return 60-percent of the water they use to the Flint River, cleaner than the original river water flowing there.

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