Britvic has adopted an Environmental Management System which is certified to the international standard ISO 14001 and covers all manufacturing sites (except Huddersfield) and our technical centre. All these sites are periodically audited and verified by an external third party to ensure that compliance against the standard is being maintained. (The Certificate Number is EMS 522171).
Britvic factories are operated to the highest standards of quality and food safety. We have maintained ISO9001 accredited systems since the early 1990’s. More recently all our production sites have gone through the process of obtaining accreditation by EFSIS to the BRC Global standard – Food.
Packaging is essential for our drinks. It protects, preserves and enables our products to be transported easily and conveniently. It also means our consumers can keep hydrated whilst on the go. However we recognise that it has an environmental impact – from energy used in its production to the waste created after consumption. Our challenge is to minimise these impacts without compromising on product safety, quality or usability.
Our environmental packaging strategy focuses on minimising waste, using recycled materials and supporting recycling.
We have reduced the amount of material (and therefore waste) in our 500ml drench bottle by four grams, amounting to a reduction of over 17% in bottle packaging. We are continuing to focus on light-weighting the rest of our range.
We are working with recycling companies in the UK to introduce plastic bottles containing PET which has been recycled from British households – currently recycled PET (rPET) is made from imported material.
In answer to consumer demand for clearer on-pack guidance, we have adopted the ‘Recycle Now’ logo which will feature across all Britvic drinks, delivering a simple, UK-wide, consistent message to help consumers recycle more material, more often.
Did you know that Britvic has saved 330 tonnes of PET through lightweighting its Robinsons bottles and 50 tonnes of cardboard by reducing the material in its display trays
