Carbon Emissions
We’re doers not talkers, so we’ve measured our carbon foot-print with the experts at RISE who’ve done the sums and calculated the emissions of many of our products.
That means we’ve looked at everything from our farms to your fridge, or if we’re being technical that’s scopes 1, 2 and 3. The entire lifecycle of our products, from the ingredients we use, to the energy in our factories, transportation; right through to you taking it home and putting it in your fridge.
It’s our pledge to you that by measuring we’re also committed to reducing our carbon footprint and we will continue to do so over the coming years.
Reducing Carbon
Production
Our farms are the place where it all begins. And our organic farmers are integral to the future of our nation’s sustainable food system.
As custodians of the land, they are our very future. They will be on the journey with us over the next decade, looking at their organic practices, optimising feed and crop efficiencies, managing healthy contented cows and producing the highest quality organic milk in the most efficient way possible.
Our factories are more than a place for making milk, yogurts and ice cream. They are communities. They are part of sustaining a long-term future for the circular economy. It’s where all of our products and innovations are created and where tomorrow’s will be developed too. They will continue to meet the economic, social, and environmental challenges we face.
ENERGY USE
Our sites in the West Country have reduced their carbon footprint by approximately 40% over the past two decades by making energy efficiencies in refrigeration and utilising heat recovery.
We also have over 10,000 solar panels on our production sites in the South West and one acre of solar panels on the cow shed in the real Yeo Valley. It’s important to us that the electricity we need to buy is also from renewable sources, which is why we’ve been buying green electricity in the Valley for over 20 years. Over the next two years while we reduce our carbon footprint, we’ll see more green energy introduced, for example through our supplying organic farmers and at our other production sites including even more solar panels.
Packaging
Packaging allows us to bring our dairy to you in tip-top condition. We’re continually making innovations to make it even more sustainable, such as using recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which reduces the carbon footprint by 75%. This is why we became the UK’s first dairy brand to introduce 100% recycled PET (rPET) yogurt pot.
After successful trials removing clip lids from our Greek style yogurt range, we’re saying bye bye to plastic lids across our 350g and 450g tubs. Making this small change will remove a huge 145 tonnes of plastic a year – that’s the equivalent of 188 Friesian cows, 24 African elephants or 17 tractors …
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
We’ll be eliminating packaging we don’t need, and continuing to innovate to ensure our packaging can be recycled and safely reused again and again, so it remains part of the circular economy and reduces waste.
What you do at home, counts for 10% of our emissions so we’ll be continuing to encourage you to reuse and recycle at home. Whether that’s an old milk bottle as a bird feeder or a yogurt pot as a seed planter, we’re always bursting with ideas.
Organic Farming
Organic farming is a system governed by legal standards, and regularly and independently inspected, which produces food in ways that benefit people, animals, wildlife, society and the natural world.
No other defined system of farming and food production comes close to delivering such a breadth of benefits.
For you, wildlife and the world
We’re committed to protecting and nourishing the health of our planet and its people which is why we’ve been an organic brand, supporting over 100 British organic farmers for over 25 years.
Our focus over the coming decades will be to work with our organic farmers to improve soil health and promote biodiversity, supporting the positive development of the whole farm environment and supporting regenerative ecosystems.
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