Coca-Cola supports World Earth Hour

Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Limited will support the World Earth Hour 2012 which takes place at 8.30 pm on the 31st of March 2012.

The company will take a series of steps to support the occasion. On the day the Plant will be switching off the main building exterior lights and signage spots, reducing lighting at the plant to ensure minimal energy usage and switching off and unplugging all non essential equipment.

In addition, the company has also appealed to its staff and business partners, requesting that they too join in the effort by switching off all non essential lights in their homes and at their places of business.

As a long term initiative to cut down on energy usage the company has taken steps to maximise on day light use by changing roofing sheets to transparent sheets, move to a centralized chilling system, which helps to reduce the energy wastage that occurs when individual units are run and change all existing high wattage lamps to low energy consuming lighting.

Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka is also making plans to move to cold sugar dissolving to optimize the energy use for sugar dissolving.

Saumindra Bhattacharya, Country Manager, Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Limited said "We are very proud to be a part of the world wide Earth Hour initiative this year.

As a company, Coca-Cola is well known for its global commitment to responsible citizenship which includes the conservation of natural resources and sustainability."