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How Anheuser Busch Effects The Environment
Anheuser Busch is one of the top beer Brewing companies in the world. They do a bunch of good within the space but they also have some flaws. Some of the positives being how they can control and limit what they do to the environment. They also hurt the environment but they are limiting the amount of pollutants they put into the environment each year.

What They Do To The Environment
The process of brewing beer is a lot more complicated and a lot more factors come into play than you would think. There are many different types of beer but majority of them are brewed in similar ways. Some of the ingredients that Anheuser Busch incorporates into their beer are barley, hops, rice, yeast, and water. To gather these crops, there are tractors that burn diesel fuel that goes into the air. Along with that their are animals and insects that live around these crop fields. The burning of the diesel fuel has an impact on the air and the crops. With this happening it causes and interruption in the cycle of life. If you kill more insects and smaller animals, it affects the animals that eat these insects and small animals. One thing that is hard to do is find an alternative brewing process. Majority of companies use a very similar process, and it would make it very hard to create a new one. Along with this I’m not sure a process like this could be done differently because they have been using a similar process since they started brewing.

On the other side of things, we must look at the factories that all the beer is being brewed in. When brewing, all companies use close to 90% water. When brewing beer, the amount of water you use has a huge impact on how the beer tastes. But also, when you must use as much water as these brewing companies do than they also waste a lot of water, and they also waste a lot of energy when brewing. The problem with all the wastewater is it’s not just excess water that can be placed back into the environment. It can pollute the water and hurt the environment. So, what have companies started doing with this wastewater? They have been rethinking their water disposal systems and they have now been treating water through on-site facilities for green infrastructure such as construction wetlands. More recently Anheuser Busch has been sued and has paid 500,000 dollars in penalties for violating air quality regulations. Action took place because 19 diesel trucks failed the regulations and inspections and they failed all of them. 250,000 of the money went Air Pollution Control Fund to support air pollution research and the other 250,000 went to South LA Urban Green and Community Forestry Project.