Food and beverage | Environment

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The global food and beverage sector is increasingly aware of its legal and social responsibilities to guard the environment against damage from its business processes.

Mott MacDonald has worked with both the public sector (local and national governments) and private sector consumer goods manufacturers in this sector. We help our clients adopt a very practical approach to environmental management and sustainability by helping them understand that optimising their environmental performance often goes hand in hand with reducing their business costs and improving production. For example, we’ve helped our private sector clients monitor their processes to reduce waste, save energy, minimise pollution and recycle where possible, not only reducing impacts on the natural environment but also improving efficiency and saving money.

Our expertise in food and beverage includes:

Environmental management systems, including training and support
Site inspections and remediation services for contaminated land
Clean production techniques for manufacture
Assessments of the environmental impact of business activities
Visual impact assessments for sites
Air quality assessments from production
Pollution prevention techniques
Licensing and consents
Regulatory and legislative knowledge

Recent projects include:

Site inspections and contaminated land remediation services for the development of a food retail unit in South Wales.
Agricultural rehabilitation in Tajikistan, a rural irrigation project to raise agricultural capacity, improving food security and alleviating poverty
Detailed study for irrigation in the Eastern Hills of Nepal, an area suffering chronic food deficit
Environmental study in Hangzhou Bay, China on exploiting the natural environmental capacity of the bay to assimilate waste whilst protecting and developing the supply of sea food
Food improvement studies in Russia – multi-disciplinary study to identify areas and methods requiring improvement of food production, processing and distribution including livestock, meat, milk, sugar, fruit and vegetables.