Tate & Lyle receives award for “Excellence in Environmental Practice”
Envirowise Food and Drink Supply Chain Initiative gives green light to Tate & Lyle’s environmental practices.
Envirowise is a government-funded programme which provides free advice to UK businesses to help them improve their efficiency and competitiveness while also reducing their environmental impact. Tate & Lyle was one of five large companies in the food and drink sector recruited to take part in the scheme. These companies have invited their suppliers to take part in the project who benefit from access to free support and advice to improve their “green credentials”.
“Good environmental management is integral to good overall management of our business and we are delighted that our initiative with Envirowise has been recognised with an award”, says Michael Grier, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Tate & Lyle. “We are keen to spread the benefits of Envirowise’s initiative and, following the success of last year, we are already in discussion with Envirowise about expanding our involvement to include some of our customers in the scheme as well as suppliers.”
Suppliers who sign up to the partnership programme receive a series of free training workshops, run by industry specialists, on waste management and packaging, energy and water minimisation, Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and Environmental Legislation. In addition to this, suppliers are offered a confidential, on-site waste review conducted by an independent advisor selected from Envirowise’s panel of experts. A business specific action plan is laid out by the advisor to identify how to improve efficiency and how to estimate the potential environmental and cost savings that can be made through taking part in these initiatives.
The award was presented by Paul Rankin (TV Chef) at Envirowise’s first FEED conference in the NEC Birmingham attended by over 200 representatives from the UK's food, drink, hospitality and catering sectors.
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