We all know how important it is to be responsible and play an active role in helping to protect our planet.
We’ve made great progress towards reducing our impact on the planet. Our pilot Environmental Management System (EMS) is already proving its worth, helping us manage waste and reduce our environmental footprint. Additionally, we’ve introduced On-Pack Recycling Labels (OPRL) across our products and hired a dedicated Packaging Manager to ensure our packaging is as sustainable as possible.
We know we’ve still got more to do and as we approach recertification in 2024 have goals in place to make Higgidy even better, so watch this space!
An important part of our sustainability journey is calculating our carbon footprint (the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted via our actions) and setting ourselves targets and ways to reduce it.
Our overall ambition is to reach Net Zero emissions by 2040 and we’ve set ourselves smaller targets to hit before then too, helping us to cut our emissions each year between now and 2030.
You can find out about our progress so far in our latest Impact Report here.
Waste is a big problem in the food industry – roughly a third of all food produced across the world is wasted each year.
We’re proud to have zero waste going to landfill and are looking into new waste streams to recycle more and reduce our total wastage.
We want to ensure we’re doing everything we can to reduce food waste and have set ourselves a challenging target to halve operational food waste intensity across the business by 2030 (from a 2019 baseline), Watch this space!
Packaging serves a purpose and we’re not going to be removing it, but we know there are ways we can reduce and improve the materials that go into making it, so that’s exactly what we’re doing.
In 2021 we trialled moving from plastic trays to paper cases inside our Little Quiche boxes and had a positive response so we roll this out across our wider range in 2022, ensuring that 100% of our packaging is reusable, widely recyclable or home compostable.
Click here to see what our packaging is made of and how you can recycle it.
As individuals we can all play our part in making the world a little greener through the choices we make.
We’d love to hear of any thoughts, suggestions or ideas you have to help us be better. Simply drop us a message via thekitchen@higgidy.co.uk or sign up to our Food for Thought Club.
We’ve also got a few crafty culinary ideas that you can implement in your own kitchen at home to help save on food waste. Visit our recipe section to find out more.
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