Current Nominations
Nominees
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| Outlet name: | Accor | | Outlet location: | London | | Reason for nomination: | | Nomination for the huge analysis project undertaken with PriceWaterhouseCoopers to minimise impact across 11 key activities: construction materials, room equipment, office equipment, employee travel, waste, water, energy, cooling equipment, food and beverage, cleaning products and laundry
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| Outlet name: | Adnams Brewery | | Outlet location: | Southwold | | Reason for nomination: | | Great business centred around the town of Southwold that combines brewing and hotels and has been a great initiator of sustainable initiatives across all its activities. |
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| Outlet name: | Airds Hotel & Restaurant | | Outlet location: | Port Appin | | Reason for nomination: | | Amazing work in local community providing soup for elderly villagers, working with suppliers on packaging and working hard on waste on site. |
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| Outlet name: | Battlesteads | | Outlet location: | Wark on Tyne | | Reason for nomination: | | Battlesteads has a 25 mile sourcing policy and works closely with the local primary school engaging children in sustainability. Battlesteads operates a woodchip burning biomass boiler and surplus heat heats the restaurants very own biotunnel that supplies the restaurant with veg. A nice touch is the suppliers are promoted on its website. |
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| Outlet name: | Bite Catering | | Outlet location: | Coriander House McNicol Drive London NW10 7AW | | Reason for nomination: | | Project Pig - Training to help chefs in the Bite Business understand how to use the whole of a pig not just the main cuts. Working with a farm chefs experienced a whole pig being butchered from which dishes were designed and served to clients thereby using all of the available meat and offal from the head to the trotters, the loin to the legs. |
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| Outlet name: | Black Boy Inn | | Outlet location: | Caernarfon | | Reason for nomination: | | Local seasonal produce with environmentally responsible operations
http://www.black-boy-inn.com/sustainable-hospitality.htm |
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| Outlet name: | Café Spice Namasté | | Outlet location: | 16 Prescot Street, London E1 8AZ | | Reason for nomination: | | Assessing "Sustainability" on 3 broad criteria, these guys win every time!
1. Great food, atmosphere & economically sound: Cyrus & Pervin score top marks, 2 decades of entertainment & still going strong
2. Commitment to community both at work & throughout the supply chain: suppliers & staff love them, charities & communities they support do too.
3. Minimising impacts on the environment: no ones works harder here & still they look tom
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| Outlet name: | Carey's Manor Hotel | | Outlet location: | Brockenhurst - The New Forest | | Reason for nomination: | | Careys Manor Hotel & Spa implements and promotes green policies in all areas of the business: internal behaviours, mechanical, electrical, plant, building, natural and cultural, social activity & communication, suppliers and bedrooms. It has strong links with local partnerships through which it extends its green initiatives and encourages similar sustainable practices. Above all there is no compromise to quality of offering. The Hotel has been awarded Gold status in the Green Tourism Business Scheme. |
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| Outlet name: | Combe House Hotel | | Outlet location: | Honiton, Devon | | Reason for nomination: | | Combe House was nominated in 2011. We nominate Combe House in 2012 for its stewardship of the environment and its positive impact on the local community and economy. In short grasping sustainability as a business practice. Please read more here: www.combehousedevon.com/sustain.php |
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| Outlet name: | Deepdale Farm Hostel & Campsite | | Outlet location: | Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk | | Reason for nomination: | | They say "At Deepdale we regard the environment as an inseparable part of the economy...help educate and raise awareness of environmental issues, concerns of social and ethical responsibility, and assist in any way we can to promote a healthy world, a healthy body and a healthy mind." Follow link:
http://www.deepdalefarm.co.uk/e |
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| Outlet name: | Dog & Duck | | Outlet location: | Donitall | | Reason for nomination: | |
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| Outlet name: | Earthy Foods & Goods | | Outlet location: | Edinburgh | | Reason for nomination: | | Support local and organic producers; FairTrade products and are a GM-free business. All in-store packaging is biodegradeable and they recycle all waste. |
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| Outlet name: | eatso | | Outlet location: | pelsall | | Reason for nomination: | | there are no other takeaways like this in my area. they use bio-degradable packaging and there menu is seasonal and produce sourced locally |
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| Outlet name: | Eddie Gilberts | | Outlet location: | Ramsgate | | Reason for nomination: | | Sadly the proprietor of Eddie Gilberts, Jonny Dunhill recently passed away but this restaurant should be nominated for the staffs relentless encouragement of customers to buy less commonly bought fish. It should also be considered for Jonny's outspoken stance to the CFP and for the restaurants robust sourcing policies. |
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| Outlet name: | Eversheds | | Outlet location: | London | | Reason for nomination: | | The site has a culture of CSR from top to bottom |
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| Outlet name: | Eversheds London catered by Elior UK | | Outlet location: | London, 1 Woods | | Reason for nomination: | | Eversheds London, catered by Elior, is the company flagship site in terms of implementation of sustainable practices and replicating good practices across the business; food waste is recycled, award winning roof garden with beehives and a wormery, kitchen equipments and whole kitchen energy consumption monitored as part of a Carbon Trust/Defra project, starbucks fairtrade coffee and tea, Red Tractor site, seasonal produce promotion, Springboard coaching and motivational workshops for colleges and young people into work. |
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| Outlet name: | Fareshare | | Outlet location: | Fareshare London | | Reason for nomination: | | FareShare is a national UK charity supporting communities to relieve food poverty. FareShare is at the centre of two of the most urgent issues that face the UK: food poverty and food waste.
Providing quality food - surplus to organisations working with disadvantaged people in the community
Providing training and essential life skills of safe food preparation and nutrition, and warehouse employability training. Promoting the message that ‘No Good Food Should Be Wasted’
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| Outlet name: | Feng Sushi | | Outlet location: | London | | Reason for nomination: | | Feng Sushi has incredible sourcing policies not just on fish but also going as far as its rice, cartons are made of sustainable Swedish forestry products, chopsticks made from sustainable bamboo, dipping sauce cups from sugar cane and cooking oils are recycled to power the fleet of scooters.
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| Outlet name: | harper adams catering | | Outlet location: | edgemond nr newport | | Reason for nomination: | | Because they get there meat and eggs straight from the farm at harper adams so less mileage. Also they try to source all the rest of the food more locally and recycle everything where possible. |
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| Outlet name: | Harper Adams University College | | Outlet location: | Telford | | Reason for nomination: | | The Catering Department have all their own meat & poultry & eggs reeared, culled & butchered on site to feed all the students & visitors. Where he can Wayne Wright will buy from local & British suppliers in the catering & food industry to accompany this. |
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| Outlet name: | Helen Browning @ The Royal Oak | | Outlet location: | Bishopstone, Swindon | | Reason for nomination: | | This outlet has been voted for for its policy of buying renewable energy |
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| Outlet name: | Holland House | | Outlet location: | Pershore | | Reason for nomination: | | Retreat centre committed to working towards a sustainable and environmentally sound future. Most of the seasonal produce is grown on-site in the Retreat's own vegetable garden, or sourced locally. |
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| Outlet name: | La Moinerie Hotel | | Outlet location: | Sark, Channel Islands | | Reason for nomination: | | This hotel is taking sustainability to a new level! Here’s a shortened list of initiatives they’ve undertaken-
Sewage plant that turns sewage water into grade A river water.
Recycling paper and cardboard into briquettes.
Glass crusher to crush glass products for reuse.
Recycling tins/cans/plastics/ink cartridges/green waste.
Rainwater harvesting.
Own kitchen gardens and greenhouses for organic fruit and vegetables.
Seasonal menu that use predominantly local produce.
Own vineyards, beehives and orchards.
SRA 3 Star Sustainability Champions. |
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| Outlet name: | Lasswade Hotel | | Outlet location: | Powys | | Reason for nomination: | | In an effort to minimise the effects to the environment, they have committed to a policy of sound and responsible environmental management, leading to a sustainable use of resources and optimal management of waste. |
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| Outlet name: | Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saison | | Outlet location: | Great Milton, Oxford | | Reason for nomination: | | Extraordinarily high level of sourcing practices from a seasonal, regional, certification and welfare point of view. Stakeholder engagement very high on agenda and positive impact on the local community. Water and energy saving high on agenda and a bore hole provides water for the organic garden. Amazing |
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| Outlet name: | Lussmann's | | Outlet location: | St Alban's | | Reason for nomination: | | Close contender for Footprint Awards 2011. Ongoing high level sourcing policy. Stakeholder engagement high on the agenda and waste reduction policies producing tangible results. A restaurant being responsible and striving to be sustainable. |
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| Outlet name: | Matfen Hall Hotel & Spa | | Outlet location: | Matfen, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE20 0RH | | Reason for nomination: | | Apart from local food sourcing, all heating and hot water powered by wood chip from the natural thinning process of estate forestry. As the wood chips are burned, they release the same amount of carbon dioxide absorbed during the trees lifetime of growth.
http://www.primahotels.co.uk/d/matfen/media/wood_chip_boiler_info.pdf |
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| Outlet name: | Paternoster Chophouse | | Outlet location: | London | | Reason for nomination: | | Nomination for policy of using all the by products from animals. Believers in nose to tail |
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| Outlet name: | Preston Park Tavern | | Outlet location: | Brighton | | Reason for nomination: | | Nomination for its commitment to working with suppliers and reducing waste and embracing of offsite anaerobic digestion. |
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| Outlet name: | Pret | | Outlet location: | London | | Reason for nomination: | | For the amazing work and money raised on the Simon Hargraves Apprenticeships Scheme. Raising money to place underprivileged and rehabilitating them in employment with Pret. Watch this film to get the picture. http://www.pret.com/pret_foundation_trust/pret_apprentices/introduction.htm
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| Outlet name: | Ram's Head Inn | | Outlet location: | Grappenhall | | Reason for nomination: | | The pub generates its own power and any excess goes to the National Grid. It uses an LPG converted vehicle to source produce locally for its kitchen, any used cooking oil is recycled to produce fuel oil, and waste glass and cardboard are recycled. Seasonal and local food, some home grown.
http://www.ramshead-inn.co.uk/environment.asp |
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| Outlet name: | Rest Ass | | Outlet location: | 10 Upper Bank Street Carnary Wharf. | | Reason for nomination: | |
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| Outlet name: | Restaurant Associates @ Clifford Chance - green initiatives in office catering | | Outlet location: | Clifford Chance offices, Canary Wharf, London | | Reason for nomination: | | Clifford Chance takes a truly sustainable approach to office catering. Their menu is based on being “Truly Local”, using produce from within 50 miles. They only use sustainably-sourced fish and free-range eggs. Rainforest Alliance tea and Fairtrade coffee is served in compostable disposables; used packaging is recycled with food waste. Using eco packaging saved 2 tonnes of carbon in 2011. They operate the “Trim Trax” system in their kitchen to monitor and reduce food waste. |
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| Outlet name: | Royal Bournemouth Hospital - local food, energy efficiency, zero waste | | Outlet location: | Bournemouth | | Reason for nomination: | | Royal Bournemouth Hospital is a pioneer in green hospital catering. They source local food, including free-range eggs, cakes, milk, bread, turkey and locally-bottled mineral water. Compostable disposables are composted together with food waste, diverting 11.3 tonnes of used packaging from landfill in 2011. No catering waste goes to landfill. Reusing mugs gets 5p off all beverages. Newly-installed induction hobs reduce gas consumption. RBH constantly seek new ways to reduce waste and energy whilst improving service. |
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| Outlet name: | Royal Brompton Hospital | | Outlet location: | London | | Reason for nomination: | | Royal Brompton Hospital is the perfect example of cots sector working collectively in purchasing local, seasonal and organic food. Resulting in the quality and taste of food improving food standard, but simultaneously lowering costs resulting in lower food wastage. Replicability is key and the management team hopes to set an example across cost sector. |
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| Outlet name: | Soulton Hall | | Outlet location: | Shrewsbury | | Reason for nomination: | | Country manor, with its own in-hand farm and woodland, all managed to assessed high stewardship levels. Most recent sustainability-initiative is on site solar PV electric (producing c.120% of own annual demand); this alongside beekeeping, kitchen garden, rainwater storage, use of own firewood in hating and habitat creation/maintenance over farmland. Continued focus on managing down energy usage.
Detailed sustainability policy (http://www.soultonhall.co.uk/soulton/sustainability.html) gives frank assessment of achievements and further plans, e.g. ground source heating.
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| Outlet name: | Squid & Pear | | Outlet location: | London | | Reason for nomination: | | Squid & Pear
Squid & Pear is a family event catering business run by epicurean sisters, Claire and Lisa. They provide top-notch ethical and sustainable catering for events, photo shoots and film/TV shoots. With the company's recently converted LDV school bus, complete with full kitchen and a new stone bake pizza oven, the Squid & Pear experience can be brought direct to clients at their location of choice. Squid & Pear have a particular passion for British game, seafood and 'nose to tail' dining, however clients will find menus for vegetarians, vegans, coeliacs and carnivores alike. Rated a maximum Three Star rating from the Sustainable Restaurant Association and supporters of UK charity, FareShare, you can be sure that each event they cater for will not only be a feast for all senses but a little gentler on our beautiful planet. |
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| Outlet name: | St John's | | Outlet location: | London | | Reason for nomination: | | Under the amazing leadership of Fergus Henderson, St John's has pioneered nose to tail cuisine popularising unfashionable cuts and creating a movement that is making a tangible to British cooking and this is having a positive impact on British farmers and producers and is also a consideration on prep waste. |
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| Outlet name: | Stoke by Nayland Country Lodges | | Outlet location: | Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk | | Reason for nomination: | | The five large Lodges nestle sympathetically with the landscape. Their roofs are tiled with Red Cedar shingles and the exterior walls are clad with stunning Iroko wood. Each Lodge has solar photovoltaic panels to generate electricity, solar thermal panels for heating water and air source heat pumps for central heating. In addition, the design includes good insulation and air flows to minimise energy requirements. The timber is sourced from sustainable forests. |
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| Outlet name: | Strattons Hotel | | Outlet location: | Swaffham, Norfolk | | Reason for nomination: | | Super hotel with embedded sustainability policy and environmental ethos. Apparently if you go to dinner by bicycle you get a discount!
http://www.strattons-hotel.co.uk/greenAwareness/environmentalEthos |
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| Outlet name: | Summer Lodge | | Outlet location: | Evershot, Dorset | | Reason for nomination: | | Very high sourcing policy. Strive for own production. Staff engagement very high in a strive to minimise waste of natural resources. £1 from every bill is donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital. |
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| Outlet name: | The Anchor | | Outlet location: | Walberswick | | Reason for nomination: | | Lovely pub with rooms that has had great attention paid to ensuring sustainability
http://www.anchoratwalberswick.com/page/greening-of-the-anchor-315 |
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| Outlet name: | The Bay Fish & Chips | | Outlet location: | Stonehaven | | Reason for nomination: | | Strong recycling policy, strong waste policy, strong sourcing policy. Use of 100% renewable electricity and measuring impact consistently. Way to go for a smaller business! A true pin up. |
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| Outlet name: | The Clink | | Outlet location: | Sutton, Surrey | | Reason for nomination: | | The Clink Charity offers the hospitality industry the opportunity to make a real change in prisoner’s lives by training them and offering full time employment upon release. The Clink Restaurant provides a real working environment and an opportunity to change people’s perceptions of prisoners and attract potential employers.
http://www.theclinkcharity.com/the-restaurant/ |
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| Outlet name: | The Cloudesley | | Outlet location: | St.Leonards-on-Sea | | Reason for nomination: | | Award-winning eco-friendly guest house with 5 boutique hotel rooms, Egyptian or organic linen, Siberian goose down pillows, luxury pocket sprung beds, organic food prepared with Himalayan crystal salt, catering to special diets. In-house cleaning and washing with eco products, soaps and shampoos SLS and paraben free, solar hot water from three large panels. Eco limewash painted rooms free of chemicals. http://www.thecloudesley.co.uk/about-climate-change.html |
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| Outlet name: | The Cottage Lodge | | Outlet location: | Brockenhurst | | Reason for nomination: | | Delightful b&b in the New Forest that strives to reduce it's waste, pollution, carbon impact and environmental impact at every level of operation.
http://www.cottagelodge.co.uk/new-forest-environment.asp |
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| Outlet name: | The Green Dragon | | Outlet location: | Market Lavington | | Reason for nomination: | | The Green Dragon Pub is a community pub which carefully considers its carbon footprint. Procedures have been put in place for recycling including foil, aerosol cans and glass. Compost bins are installed and food waste is fed to the pub’s rabbits and chickens. Gas, electricity, and water consumption are monitored as are the food miles of all suppliers. Some fresh food is grown in the pub’s own allotment.
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| Outlet name: | The Montagu Arms Hotel | | Outlet location: | The New Forest | | Reason for nomination: | | The food at The Montagu Arms Hotel in Beaulieu is prepared by Michelin starred Chef – Matt Tomkinson, who is committed to using foods from the hotel’s own Kitchen Garden or purchasing ingredients under a strict ethical food policy. The Hotel is dedicated to using seasonal, free-range ingredients sourced carefully from selected local suppliers and is a member of the local Green Leaf scheme and supports the ‘Brand New Forest’ initiative.
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| Outlet name: | The Potting Shed | | Outlet location: | Crudwell, Wiltshire | | Reason for nomination: | | Great menu comprising seasonal, British produce which is locally-sourced where possible – or grown in the pub’s very own vegetable patch. The pub has even dedicated 10 raised beds in its garden to local villagers. Also a member of Slow Food UK, which links the ‘pleasure of food with a commitment to the community and the environment’. |
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| Outlet name: | The Table Cafe, Southwark - local sourcing, award-winning food | | Outlet location: | Southwark, London | | Reason for nomination: | | The Table Café doesn’t just serve delicious award-winning food. It weaves sustainability into everything they do. Head Chef Shaun Alpine-Crabtree orders next season’s crops from a local community allotment scheme which supports homelessness; buying these quality seasonal herbs and vegetables gives the group a regular income. The Table only serves sustainable fish on their menus. They are currently implementing food waste recycling so they can recycle everything, including their low-carbon compostable food packaging. |
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| Outlet name: | The Thatchers Arms | | Outlet location: | Mount Bures, CO8 5AT | | Reason for nomination: | | Great champion of local, sustainable and responsibly sourced food and drink |
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| Outlet name: | The Watershed Cafe/Bar | | Outlet location: | Bristol | | Reason for nomination: | | With an ethical, sustainable approach to food the Watershed Café/Bar celebrates the tastes of the South West by serving fresh, seasonal, local food and drink. Its ‘Plot to Plate’ policy ensures that food is served straight from the farmer’s plot in the ground without traveling hundreds of miles. Passionate about supporting the local economy, reducing its carbon footprint and paying the highest respect to the welfare of producers, animals and the quality of the land. |
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| Outlet name: | Total Foodservice | | Outlet location: | Clitheroe | | Reason for nomination: | | It took over 10 years to develop their new offices which offer a high tech & sustainable environment. Everything has been thought of in an ecological way - they even collect the rain water to wash the lorries & flush the toilets! |
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| Outlet name: | Union of Genius - Scotland's first soup café | | Outlet location: | Edinburgh | | Reason for nomination: | | This gourmet micro soup café unites Edinburgh’s finest foodies - 6 artisan suppliers within 25 miles of the shop - to create their amazing six daily soups. Compostable packaging is recycled together with food waste, diverting 1.5 tonnes from landfill in 3 months. Loyalty points for free soup reward customers who return used packaging - fifty completed loyalty cards mean over 500 items of packaging have been returned and composted since November 2011! |
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| Outlet name: | Wadworth Brewery | | Outlet location: | Devizes | | Reason for nomination: | | Wadworth Brewery is renowned for maintaining its traditional crafts but simultaneously has clear policies in place to encourage sustainable business practices. All brewing waste is reused by distributing to local farmers: Yeast to pigs, grains to cattle, hops as fertiliser even the horse manure is sold to the public. Recently the brewery has invested heavily in new ‘coppers’ which introduce the latest environmental and energy saving measures to reduce the company’s carbon footprint. |
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