As a company, Boddington’s Berries have been increasingly conscious of their carbon footprint, and with the help of Positive Planet, they have now measured this.
It has been an interesting exercise and as a result, they have now achieved Carbon Neutral status. This means that Boddington’s Berries are measuring, offsetting and committing to reducing their future carbon emissions. They’ve also been found to contribute to at least 9 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals!
Having offset last year’s carbon emissions, they have begun looking at ways to reduce their impact, and as a start, in January they took delivery of a hybrid electric van for their deliveries around the county; making those journeys greener. They’ve also started labelling with a bio-degradable paper label on the 227g retail jars, making these now completely sustainable; the jar and lid being widely recycled through the council’s collection schemes. As well as this Boddington’s Berries are moving to paper/biodegradable packing tape, and have long been re-using packing boxes and fillers for sending out parcels. They have also started to implement new systems that will reduce the paper and ink used in the office.
2022 will be the third year that they have packed their fresh fruit into craft card punnets, having already eradicated plastic packaging for these. The plants are still managed by hand – all the planting, weeding and trimming, is still done this way, just as it was in the 1940s. On the growing side, they have also cut down on their pesticide use considerably over the years, and use biological controls where ever they can.
Looking to the future they hope to look at water catchment schemes and renewable energy.
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