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30 Best Practices from Its Member Companies Company Profile Headquarters: Sapporo, Japan Aleph also contributes to building a recycling-oriented society, Major products: Restaurant chain, food industry reducing energy consumption, decreasing waste, minimizing Further information: water use, recycling kitchen refuse and conserving biodiversity. www.aleph-inc.co.jp/english_business/mission_en.html Aleph Inc. was established 1968 in Morioka city, Iwate. The Challenges and How company manages about 300 restaurants all over Japan. The Aleph Takes Responsibility mainstay of Aleph’s restaurant divisions is the hamburger steak restaurant chain “Bikkuri Donkey”. It also operates seven No one can live without natural resources and companies factories that process materials to supply to its restaurants. are no exception. Restaurant management needs buildings, uniforms, tableware and of course “food“. The food industry Aiming to provide high quality food with customers’ safety, is connected directly with society’s health and agriculture. Aleph launched an experimental farm in 1988 and started As Aleph developed, the deeper the company went into to work on sustainable agriculture by decreasing chemicals agriculture and the more keenly it understood the importance in the procured materials. Through its business activities, of a balanced nature. Aleph is dependent on biodiversity for its business activity. Therefore, Aleph also considers the environmental load it has with its restaurant kitchen and factory refuse including used vegetable oil, gray water and other wastes. It strives to achieve a reduction in the company’s impact on the biodiversity of the natural environment. Experience of traditional harvesting Monitoring the living things at contracted rice paddy Fields of Action Sites and facilities Supply chains, commodities and materials Product Production and manufacturing processes Transport and logistics Personnel Passing on the rice-growing culture: transplanting with Aleph employees in traditional costume with local people Best Practice: usual from the post-harvest. This method has been adopted in some regions for various reasons such as for creating Three Projects of Rice Farming habitats for valuable migratory birds, or for organic rice with Procurement farming and other beneficial purposes. Winter flooding acts as a substitute for fertilizers, weed and pest control through The Issue an increased number of sludge worms (tubifex) as well as Aleph Inc. serves 6,000 tons of rice per a year to its restaurant other living things. In its demonstration paddies in Eniwa, customers. To reduce the environmental loads resulting from 3,500 people including Aleph’s employees and local people these business activities, Aleph has implemented three rice have had experience with the sustainable rice farming. They farming projects that enable a sustainable procurement of participate in seeding, transplanting, harvesting, among other rice. activities without harmful health risks. This facilitates a rice- growing culture and offers educational chances for those The Response involved. The “Less Agrochemical Rice” (Shou-nou-yaku-mai) project started in 1996 and is Aleph’s private-label rice. It is produced The Results with only one application of herbicides, and no Within the “Less Agrochemical Rice” (Shou-nou-yaku-mai) other chemicals. Farmers are encouraged project currently about 700 rice producers have signed up for to use organic fertilizers so that nearly Aleph’s contracts. Since April 2006 Aleph has been able to 80 % of fertilizer meets Aleph’s strict serve its private-label rice in all ”Bikkuri Donkey“ restaurants. specifications. In 2011 the company was able to increase the farming area of “Living-Things-Friendly Rice Paddy” by 100 ha. (10 % of The company also initiated the “Living- Aleph’s current procurement volume). Starting in 2012 the Things-Friendly Rice Paddies” project company has begun serving its rice in 22 of its ”Bikkuri that ensures sustainable production Donkey“ restaurants. of rice paddies with an eye for safe environmental conditions for living On these three types of rice paddies that use litte or no organisms. This project promotes environ- agrochemicals, many living things have begun to thrive such mentally-friendly practices for irrigation in as frogs, dragonflies, loaches and herons. Aleph considers winter, biotopes, fishways, production without agro- the success of this project to be one step forward for its chemicals and chemical fertilizers. sustainable, low environmental impact business model. Furthermore, Aleph started the “Eniwa Demonstrated Rice Paddies” project by using a method of winter-flooded rice paddies (Fuyumizu-Tambo). This method keeps paddies flooded and left as wetlands until spring and not dried out as ’Biodiversity in Good Company’ Initiative e. V. Potsdamer Platz 10 · 10785 Berlin · Germany Phone: +49.(0)30.408 190-271 www.business-and-biodiversity.de Company Profile Challenges and How BIONADE Takes Responsibility Headquarters: Ostheim/Rhön, Germany Major products: Non-alcoholic As a producer of ecologically sound refreshment drinks refreshment beverages using natural organic raw materials, BIONADE is aware of Further information: www.bionade.de the importance of maintaining and protecting biological diversity so that mankind can continue to live in an intact Ever since its origins in the 1980s, when the product BIONADE environment. Furthermore, biodiversity is crucial to the core was invented, the company has embodied sustainable think- business of the company to be able to use raw materials of ing and acting. BIONADE’s roots are in the region and its high ecological quality in the longterm. Thus, the company headquarters is in the heart of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve takes responsibility for its actions and is taking steps to fac- in Germany. With a non-alcoholic refreshment drink, which tor biodiversity into its business transactions. One step in is purely organically produced through fermentation and is of helping BIONADE achieve its goals has been to sign the Lead- organic quality in accordance with the EU Eco-regulation, the ership Declaration of the ’Biodiversity in Good Company’ company is aiming for a pioneering role in the refreshment Initiative. As part of a continuous development process, the beverage industry. On its path to international expansion, company has made and will continue to make improvements BIONADE also sees itself as an inspiration for other regions. in this area. Current progress has yielded an environmental management system that has been successfully implemented, and with the help of experts and various studies conducted at BIONADE, a consistent biodiversity management system is being developed. It covers areas of activity in organisation, supply chain management and personnel. In addition, best practices examples from BIONADE reflect that sustainable development in terms of the Leadership Declaration is truly embodied at BIONADE. Fields of Action Sites and facilities Supply chains, commodities and materials Product Production and manufacturing processes Transport and logistics Personnel Best Practice: project ensures a permanent supply of locally grown organic raw materials for BIONADE, above all from the structurally Regional Organic Farming – weak Rhön region. This cooperation guarantees that the “Bio-Landbau Rhön” origin of the raw materials can be traced, their quality is guaranteed and extensive transport routes can be dispensed with. Moreover, the guidelines that BIONADE adheres to, such The Issue as those of Naturland e.V., are much stricter than those of In its “Bio-Landbau Rhön” (Rhön Organic Farming) project, the EU organic regulations. BIONADE combines ecologically sound actions with business activities for the benefit of biological diversity. Within this The Results project, regional procurement is being optimised by the fact Now, thanks to this project, BIONADE produces its high that the farmers producing elderberries for BIONADE grow quality, organic refreshment beverages by procuring 100 % these organically in the Rhön region itself. of its elderberries, malting barley and mint together with a portion of the quinces it needs from regional Rhön suppliers. The Response When BIONADE and a regional organic farmer first had the idea for this project in 2005, they were entering completely uncharted territory. On the basis of long-term contracts, this ’Biodiversity in Good Company’ Initiative e. V. Potsdamer Platz 10 · 10785 Berlin · Germany Phone: +49.(0)30.408 190-271 www.business-and-biodiversity.de Company Profile Challenges and How BIONADE Takes Responsibility Headquarters: Ostheim/Rhön, Germany Major products: Non-alcoholic As a producer of ecologically sound refreshment drinks refreshment beverages using natural organic raw materials, BIONADE is aware of Further information: www.bionade.de the importance of maintaining and protecting biological diversity so that mankind can continue to live in an intact Ever since its origins in the 1980s, when the product BIONADE environment. Furthermore, biodiversity is crucial to the core was invented, the company has embodied sustainable think- business of the company to be able to use raw materials of ing and acting. BIONADE’s roots are in the region and its high ecological quality in the longterm. Thus, the company headquarters is in the heart of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve takes responsibility for its actions and is taking steps to fac- in Germany. With a non-alcoholic refreshment drink, which tor biodiversity into its business transactions. One step
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