Diageo reduced water waste at its water-stressed sites by 8.6 percent over the course of FY 2012. The company has a target of reducing this metric by 50 percent, from 2007 levels, by 2015. Since 2007 it has reduced such wasted water by 14.5 percent and is on track to meet this goal, the report says.

FY 2012 saw the company reduce its waste sent to landfill by 20.5 percent over 2011 levels, the report says. Since 2007 it has cut the metric by 56.8 percent. This puts Diageo on track to eliminate all waste to landfill by 2015, the report says.

The primary way that Diageo says it can reduce waste sent to landfill is by reducing the amount of materials it uses in the first place. At the company’s Ogba, Nigeria brewery, the installation of a new filtration system reduced the amount of waste filtration matter that the site was using.

In a similar vein to other brewers (scroll down), the company is also trying to find agricultural uses for its waste. At Diageo’s Aba, Nigeria brewery, a project to make spent grains and yeast available to farmers reduced waste to landfill from this site by over 50 percent in 2012.

The company also cut its average packaging weight by 1.6 percent year-on-year. Since 2009 the company has reduced its average packaging weight by 4.8 percent. It is on track to meet its 2015 target of a 10 percent reduction in average weight over 2009 levels, the report says. However, the company is behind schedule to meet its 2015 target of an average recycled packaging content of 42 percent. Currently, an average of 35 percent of its packaging is made of recycled content, and progress stalled in 2012.