Environment

Contributing to a more circular economy

We want to help build a more circular economy for Wales and the rest of the UK. This is why we use bottles made from 50% recycled plastic across our entire range, excluding caps and labels.

Our Plastic
isn’t Rubbish

Everything about the Princes Gate bottles are recyclable, including the label and cap. So together we can help give our bottles many more lives and cut waste.

We’re all about
Zero waste to Landfill

Rest assured that everything that can be recycled at our bottling site is recycled. We’ve been a Zero Waste Landfill site for over 10 years now and its something the whole team takes great pride in and responsibility for.

OUR COMMITMENT

We are all facing many challenges right now, with climate change being one of the most significant. We realise that businesses like ours have a responsibility to do the right thing.

Here at Princes Gate, we care about where we live, about our wider environmental impact, and the quality of our water. We’re an imaginative lot who always want to try and explore new ways to make a positive impact, whether that’s creating a carpark out of recycled plastic, promoting biodiversity around our factory, or working with others to help regenerate local water cycles.

We are proud to have met our target of being Alliance for Water Stewardship certified by the end of 2025 and are aligned with Nestlé’s commitment to reaching Net Zero by 2050.

We focus on the areas where we feel we can have to most impact and look forward to collaborating with our stakeholders and communities to drive change.

Net Zero by 2050

As a business, we want to minimise our carbon footprint and are aligned with the Nestlé Net Zero Roadmap. We have started our journey, undertaking actions such as reducing our bottle weights and introducing recycled PET, but we still have further to go!

Powered by nature

We have renewable electricity to thank for running our factory. With our very own wind turbine, we’re pretty self sufficient and any top ups always come from a renewable energy provider.

Committed to working with you

We will always listen closely to our customers and embrace chances to improve our service and our environmental impact. So, if you feel you have an idea that we maybe haven’t thought of, then we’d love to hear from you!

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Helping to close the loop

We believe that we need a more circular economy, and that is why we fully support the introduction of a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). But what does this mean exactly? A DRS will charge anyone buying a drink in a bottle or can a small deposit, which will then be returned to them when they return their empty container to be recycled. The main benefits of a DRS include reducing litter, increasing recycling rates, and enhancing the quality of recycled content that can then be used to make new bottles and cans.

Alliance for Water Stewardship

Pembrokeshire’s tasty, refreshing water is everything to us, so of course we want to actively protect our local resources. Collaborating with others to protect and encourage good practice and sustainable water use is very important to us. That’s why in 2025 we underwent our initial Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) certification and achieved Core status, recognising our outstanding commitment to managing water responsibly.

AWS is a global membership collaboration of businesses, NGOs and the public sector. It focusses on contributing to the sustainability of local water resources by promoting its framework.

The AWS Standard is an international accredited standard for measuring responsible water stewardship across social, cultural, environmental, and economic criteria. Follow the links below for more information about Princes Gate's commitment to AWS:

•   Princes Gate's Water Stewardship Commitment
•   Princes Gate's AWS Audit Announcement
•   Princes Gate's Site Water Governance

Rewilding OUR Princes Gate HQ

Now, we’re not claiming to be experts on rewilding, but that hasn’t stopped us transforming our four-hectare field around the Princes Gate factory into a thriving, natural landscape for wildlife, including ducks and bees. Pete has worked with us for a long time as an engineer and saw the potential in the land around us. He got some advice from the specialists, including The Royal Botanical Gardens in Carmarthen and set about creating fields of wild flowers and vegetation, a pond with a duck house, bee hives full of honey and log mounds to provide many safe havens for the local wildlife, and for the team when they want to take some time out with a coffee (ahem… or a water!).

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