Business View Magazine | March 2020

245 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 DELHI CHARTER TOWNSHI P , MI CHIGAN and we’ve increased our gas production. When they bring the beer waste, we get more gas, and therefore, more heat and more electricity. So, it’s been a win/win. The brewery doesn’t have to worry about the violations in their city, and their waste is actually making green energy for us.” “The cool thing about this is that it helps our goal of being as self-sustaining as possible in terms of our generation of electricity and gas for the operation of the plant, itself, but it also really speaks to public/public partnerships, and public/private partnerships.” Miller notes. “The public/private partnership is the relationship with the microbrewer, which is a huge industry in Michigan; it opened some doors there and helped create a model that can be replicated elsewhere. But, the partnership with the school to get the food waste is really also innovative and a pretty significant undertaking. It used to be that we had to have somebody go through the food waste and pick out the items that the kids hadn’t separated out. But we just invested WE TRANSLATE BUILDING DATA INTO BUSINESS RESULTS Old Nation Brewery Delivery