Does your company have a leading environmental initiative?
Food and drink manufacturing has a core interest in creating sustainable food systems, that work towards halting and reversing nature loss by 2030, as well as adapting to the causes and consequences of climate change as key global challenges of the 21st century.
Companies are looking to the future and implementing creative and resourceful sustainability strategies, and this Environmental Leadership category is for companies that can meet one of the criteria below:
- Activities focused on halting commodity-driven deforestation and conversion by 2030
- Embedding sustainability throughout a product from development right through to customer use and disposal
- Ground-breaking initiatives supporting nature-based solutions in the supply chain, to halt and reverse nature loss
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Save Water, Save Energy: Tap into more opportunities – and lower your environmental impacts
Efficiencies with water and around effluent approaches in 2025 – will be key factors for food and drink businesses to stay competitive and continue to deliver against sustainability targets and reporting requirements.
Unlocking the powerful potential in water - our technical water experts have helped organisations of different sizes find the opportunities to cut water waste, running costs and risks to operations, along with improve effluent efficiencies. Installing hundreds of data loggers, at single and multiple locations, are helping sites gain greater tracking on water and identify savings, including energy.
Water management approaches, water efficiencies delivered for customers and actions taken to cut carbon emissions, means we’re a 10 times Green Apple Environment Award winner, including in 2024 and won two Global Golds for Water Management in the Green World Environment Awards, 2024 and 2023. We’re the largest water retailer in the UK and we’re committed to minimising our impact on the planet – along with helping our customers do this too.
Supporting the food and drink sector, has seen us sponsor the FDF Awards, in 2024 and 2023, to help raise awareness on the important role water can have for efficiency and sustainability approaches in the industry - and we’re doing more on this in 2025. Water Plus has also shared its expertise around effluent, including site reviews in 2024 - and can advise on treatment options to reduce discharge costs and carbon emissions.
Work with customers, including manufacturers, saw a UK Customer Satisfaction Award, in 2023 – the only water retailer in the UK to have this – and we’re Finalists for three UK Customer Satisfaction Awards in 2025.
You can’t go Net Zero, without looking at water – and our expert team can take a fresh look at your water and effluent, to help cut costs and carbon emissions.
So, find out more on ways we can help: email hello@water-plus.co.uk and go to www.water-plus.co.uk/about-us.
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Previous winners
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Environmental Leadership 2024
Wyke Farms is a progressive cheesemaking business that remain true to its roots; family-run, based in the Somerset and crafting cheddar to the same award-winning recipe since 1861.
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Environmental Leadership 2023
In under two years, Eurest has reduced its food waste by 40% and has emerged as a thought leader in the sustainability space.
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Environmental Leadership 2022 - apetito Ltd
apetito’s purpose has always been to “make a real difference” and nowhere is this evidenced more passionately than in its approach to environmental leadership.