Uganda Breweries’ involvement in environment conservation involves employees, other corporate bodies, government bodies the surrounding communities, and the public at large.

UBL is conserving and protecting the environment through campaigns like E-Green Initiative and Waste Management.

E-Green Initiative

  • In 2018, UBL committed UGX 205 Million to restore, and have since then continued the restoration of, forest reserves within various Lake Victoria water catchment areas in partnership with National Forestry Authority (NFA) and Rotary Uganda’s Mission Green.
  • UBL staff continue to show their commitment to protecting the environment and in 2018 yet again, each of them received and planted at least one tree seedling at their home, which saw the business plant over 500 trees of several varieties in one weekend in and around the areas they live in.
  • Prior to this, UBL restored over 1900 hectares of forest cover to the Navugulu forest reserve in Mpigi District in what they, internally refer to as “the UBL forest”.

Over the years the UBL team has planted trees in the Kamokoli community in eastern Ugandan, Nabitoli catholic parish, Budaka in Wakiso, Navugulu forest reserve, and most recently in 2019 the team planted trees in a bid to restore Ggangu forest.

Waste Management

In 2005, UBL set up a world-class Effluent Treatment Plant that filters and purifies wastewater to a potable state before it is disposed of. In 2015, UBL invested an additional $4 million to expand the effluent treatment so as to be equipped for increased future production.

Uganda Breweries generates about 24,000 tonnes of waste annually. Of this, solid waste constitutes 60%, carbon dioxide from energy usage and process is 39%, waste to the land fill is 0.3% with liquid waste (in terms of BOD) constituting 0.05%.