Small Changes, Big Impact: Reducing Brewery Waste
When Dave Thibodeau built the current headquarters for Durango, CO’s Ska Brewing in 2008, he turned former bowling alleys into tables, insulated his walls with recycled denim (“It’s better than fiberglass,” he says), and saved money on cement by pouring concrete fortified with a safe level of carcinogenic powder called fly ash that coal-fired power plants in nearby New Mexico emitted as a byproduct. [read more]