BSS017-2 Sustainable Business Management: Adnams' Sustainability

This report analyzes sustainable business management practices, focusing on the waste hierarchy and its application within organizations, using Adnams, a regional brewery company, as a case study. It defines sustainability and the waste hierarchy, explaining how companies can reduce their environmental impact through strategies like waste prevention, reuse, recycling, and energy recovery. The report emphasizes the importance of social, economic, and environmental pillars in achieving sustainability and suggests ways Adnams can further improve its sustainability efforts by prioritizing waste prevention and resource optimization. The document highlights Adnams' current sustainability initiatives, such as beekeeping and wildflower promotion, within the context of the waste hierarchy pyramid, which prioritizes waste reduction and resource efficiency.

Sustainable Business
Management

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Sustainable practices of the company..........................................................................................3
Defining Sustainability and waste hierarchy...............................................................................4
Waste hierarchy pyramid.............................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Waste prevention is termed as the manner of reuse, recycling, recovery that plays a vital role
in energy recovery. It relates to the tool and technique that are utilised in the procedure of
evaluation that secure and safe the environment with the terms of the resources and energy
consumption from the favourable sources of the terms (Jimoh, and Lin, 2019). The organisation
consider in this report is Adnams. It is a regional brewery company that was established in the
year of 1872 in the Southwold, Suffolk, England by the George and Ernest Adnams. It
manufactures the cakes and the bestrew with the bottled beers. It covers the annual production
almost 85,000 barrels.
MAIN BODY
Sustainable practices of the company
Sustainable management exercises will enables the business of management to decline their
negative effects on the environment and as they also enable the manner of the business to create
the profitability and productivity as per to the management of Adnams. The sustainability
practices might be internal and as well as external. The Environmental Pillar – The business of management are more concentrating on the
decreasing of the waste in terms of the carbon footprints, packaging waste, water wastage
utilisation and its global term of the impact on the environmental key factors. The
business have managing its advantageous section and its impact on the plant that might
be have positive course of financial impact (Saber, 2020). It will decrease the number of
material that are utilised in the packaging and generally it will also reduce the manner of
the financial section of effects. The Social Pillar – It will directly relates to the suitable course of approaches to
managing and maintaining the manner in terms of treating the candidates equally in terms
of the neighbour and society member. As they also termed to be stakeholder who are
securing the environment through their orientation.
 The Economic Pillar – It will require to follow the manner of the profitability and
productivity of the business at any cost. The section of the activities are suitable to be get

followed in the economical pillar in terms of the compliance, proper governance and risk
management.
Defining Sustainability and waste hierarchy
 The sustainability and the waste hierarchy management is termed as the concept that
advances the manner of waste negligence in terms of recycling and disposing. As it will
directly relates to the manner of reduce, reuse and recycle that are often utilized in the
societal role of education (Barba, Putnik, and Kovacevic,2020). In relation to the
Adnams, the management of business are focusing on exploring, growing, learning,
developing and changing in respect to stay forward and perform in an effective and
efficient manner to stay fresh.
 They work on their effective term of manner in suitable way to decrease the role of
effects on the environment and its limit to utilize the natural resources as effectively.
Such sort of tactics of the business will help them in capturing their consumers for longer
period of time in the field of market. Due to their sustainability management, the
organization of Adnams are gaining key terms of the business in the field of the market.
Waste hierarchy pyramid
Waste hierarchy can be referred to as the tool which is mainly used in order to evaluate the
processes that can protect environment together with energy consumption and resources from the
most favourable to the least favourable action. The hierarchy mainly establishes the preferred
program priorities which is based on the concept of sustainability. In order to be sustainable, the
waste management may not be only solved with the technical solution of end of pipe as well as
the integrated approach is essential (Vaccari, Powers, and 2019).
Waste hierarchy pyramid can be defined as the set of five or six priorities for efficient usage
of the resources. At the top of the pyramid, there is waste prevention and it is considered as the
preferred option. Then the subsequent options include the reduce which means minimisation,
reuse, then recycle, then recovery of energy and the finally the step of safe disposal which is at
the bottom of pyramid. Beginning from top, the priorities provided by this model; includes the
following-
 Prevention: This step is on the top most position of the pyramid which involves reducing
and preventing the generation of waste.

 Reuse: This involves giving second life to the resources before they are being made
waste for the organization. It involves reusing the resource till it is waste for company.
 Recycle: This involves the recovery operation whereby the waste materials of the
company are being reprocessed in the materials, products and substances for any of the
purpose, be it original or any other. It also includes composting but do not include the
incineration (Onu, and Mbohwa, 2021).
 Recovery: This step includes some of the waste incineration which is based on the
political formula that is non-scientific which upgrades less inefficient incinerators.
 Disposal: This includes the processes involving dispose of the waste which is
incineration, landfilling, gasification, pyrolysis and any other finalist solution.
Adnams southwold is committed to sustainability as it believes that the concept of
sustainability is very much fundamental to longevity as well as success of the business. it
believes in the values which are rooted in the making of such offering which o not cost from the
earth. From the above discussed waste hierarchy pyramid, Adnams Southwold is on the priority
of disposal stage wherein they make sure that they produce less carbon footprint and takes use of
less of the irrigation. They are promised to keep their operations environmental friendly and
make use of such resources which can be recycled (Albert, 2019). For instance, it has the own
beekeeper which looks for the bees at the distribution centre which is environmental friendly.
They encourage the wildflowers in order to grow is that bees can enjoy the feeding from sedum
flowers that grow on the green roof.
The company can move ahead to the step of prevention so that it can become more
sustainable. They must make sure that make use of such resources which produces less waste and
optimum utilisation of it can be done in order to become sustainable in the competitive
environment.

CONCLUSION
It is concluded from this report that sustainability can be referred to as the practice which
involves optimum utilisation of the resources and minimum wastage. Adnams uses social,
economic as well as environmental pillars to become sustainable and are also committed towards
sustainability. The waste hierarchy pyramid comprises of five priorities which includes
prevention at the top and disposal at the bottom of pyramid. Adnams can make sure that prevent
the wastage of the resources in order to become more sustainable.

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