Cooperation from soft drink vendors in Taiwan has been sought to cut down paper and plastic cups in order to reduce pollution.

Customers coming with their own cups, will get discount from all stores selling takeaway drink with effect from January 1, 2011. The discount amount will be fixed by the agency.

Vendors not willing to join the program will be required to recycle cups by paying one Taiwan dollar for every two cups handed in by customers.

Taiwan vendors presenty dispense 1.5 billion plastic and paper cups each year. This number is on the increase. Cofee outlets and soft drink vendors have already started encouraging customers to bring their own cups.

MillerCoors, a brewer, has surpassed its 2015 waste reduction goals five years earlier. It is a phenomenal success indeed, that demonstrated the commitment and passion of MillerCoors people at various brewery operations.

MillerCoors' 2010 'Sustainable Development' report is an assessment of the company's performance in 2009, specially in regards to company's goals across its five key responsibilities: Alcohol Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability Sustainable Supply Chain. People and Communities, and Ethics and Transparency. The report contains company's belief that the privilege of producing great beer comes with great responsibility. Titled "Great Beer, Great Respnsibility," the report details progress across the company's corporate social responsibility commitments.

The brewer succeeded in exceeding its 2015 goal for waste reduction by eliminating 20% of the amount of waste going to landfill. The company re-uses or recyles nearly 100% of all brewery waste and achieves zero waste landfill at two of its breweries. MillerCoors, besides the above registered following acheivements in 2009:

• Reduced waste to landfill by 20 percent and achieved zero waste at its Trenton, Ohio and Elkton, Virginia breweries.
  
  
• Expanded the Miller Lite Free Rides program, which has provided 2.3 million riders with safe alternative transportation on key holidays, to four new markets.
  
  
• Reduced total energy consumption by 3.6 percent, lowered greenhouse gas emissions by 1.2 percent and renewed its commitment to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program, pledging to reduce corporate-wide greenhouse gas emissions eight percent by 2015.
  
  
• Recorded a world-class ratio of 3.40 barrels of water for every barrel of beer at its Ft. Worth, Texas brewery.
  
  
• Completed the largest installation of membrane bioreactor technology in the US at its Elkton, Va. brewery.
  
  
• Began engineering at its Elkton, Va. brewery to re-use biogas from its anaerobic wastewater treatment system for generating electrical power, which the company currently does at two of its four anaerobic wastewater treatment systems.
  
  
• Reduced packaging materials by an estimated 11 million pounds in Coors Light and Coors Banquet secondary packaging.
  
  
• Held its first annual Water Stewardship Month, which resulted in nearly 1,700 hours of volunteer time from employees toward watershed protection and improvement activities.
  
  
• Allocated 7.4 percent of its total 2009 spend to diverse suppliers.

MillerCoors also engaged an external assuror, Corporate Citizenship, to review the report which conducted interviews with employees and provided a commentry within the report that 'MillerCoors has moved forward singnificantly in advancing its own sustainable development activities in the past year.'