We're sure not perfect here at Princes Gate. There's lots we'd like to do better, but we're trying harder all the time to do our bit.
Mother Nature is pretty good to us. Not only does she provide the raw materials for our product in the form of rain, but she's also blessed our land with mineral rich rock to filter the water and gives it its unique analysis.
We believe in Sustainability, but it's a word that's brandished around a lot of late. For us, however, it's something very simple but extremely meaningful.
Sustainable business is the provision of goods to meet our needs, without compromising the needs of future generations. For us it means looking after the factory (the climate and the landscape) for future generations of bottled water drinkers.
So you see, we're not tree-huggers, and we don't wear flip-flops. We just love Pembrokeshire, and we love what we do. And we love Rain!
What we've done well:
A combination of reducing packaging, reducing our waste to landfill, recycling on-site and using greener forms of energy (in addition to planting lots of trees) have yielded the following results:
- Reduced electricity by 30% year on year (despite growing in size!)
- Reduced oil use by 10%
- Reduced Carbon emissions by 45%!
- Reduced waste landfill by 35%
- We'd like to be carbon neutral in a couple of years.
We're in the process of evaluating our energy efficiencies on-site with a view to making some radical changes to our production facility and distribution network – all of which will serve to dramatically reduce our carbon footprint.
All plans, along with our Environmental Management System results from 2011, will be posted shortly.
