We are continually looking for ways to reduce our impact on the environment. We take a holistic approach and look at all elements of our value chain, from working together with our research centre to develop new barley types, to using biogas from waste water treatment plans and installing energy efficient HFC free coolers at points-of-sale.
Environmental strategy
Within our environmental strategy, we are focusing our efforts on three priority areas that are the most relevant to our business: Water, Energy and Emissions, and Packaging.
- Our ambition is to be the industry leader for efficiency in water and energy consumption and CO2 emissions on our production sites.
- We want to reduce the amount of packaging we use and promote the reuse and recycling of packaging material.
- Increasingly, we are looking at how we can better engage with the communities where we operate and work together with our agricultural suppliers, particularly in relation to water management.
Environmental Policy
Through the standards set out in our Environmental Policy, we aim to use natural resources more efficiently and minimise the negative impact of our operations.
Measuring performance and verification
We measure our environmental performance through various indicators relating to our production sites. This is one of the area where we have the greatest environmental impact and where we can directly improve our performance by installing new equipment and changing our operational procedures. Assessing the performance of our different sites helps us to identify where to focus our efforts in order to continually improve.
We are working with KPMG’s sustainability team, who provide assurance on selected key environmental indicators. This is enabling us to further improve our measurement and reporting systems. The selected indicators, and their associated data and explanatory notes, are indicated by an asterisk (*) in the relevant environmental sections.
KPMG’s conclusions can be found in their independent assurance report