PT Great Giant Pineapple (GGP) in an integrated pineapple plantation and factory which was established in 1984 and registered in Indonesia. Understanding fully that any production activity will result in some environmental impact, GGP put into place green processes as soon as the company incepted, making waste management a part of its sustainability strategy. The objective for sustainability in waste management is to produce zero waste.

A sustainability strategy in place means GGP manages risk, meets compliance and regulation standards and also encourages competitiveness and innovation. Its initiative in treating waste water by combining liquid waste water from pineapple and tapioca factories to produce biogas as a renewable energy source which replaces fossil fuel has now become an opportunity to produce something environmentally friendly which also adds value to the company.

GGP is implementing Environment Management System ISO 14001 :2004 and was certified in July 2006. It considers its sustainability initiatives part of a holistic process, and not a one-time activity. Fittingly, GGP has undertaken several sustainability initiatives. Its ‘Waste to Energy or Worth Project’ treats liquid waste from factories using an anaerobic UASB (Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket) system and converts the liquid waste into renewable energy called bio gas. The bio gas is used to partly substitute coal consumption by coal power plants which generate steam and power for factories, replacing Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) for tapioca starch drying.