The Green Food & Beverage Award

This award is open to food and beverage producers throughout the island of Ireland with 50+ full time employees who distribute their products and who can demonstrate commitment, innovation, and action in evolving Irish food production toward sustainability. Please explain your overall sustainability/environmental strategy and what it has achieved to date. Make sure you explain the targets you have set, and how far you have gone in achieving them and if possible, please show hard statistics demonstrating year-on-year comparisons. Entry is by a 5-page A4 PDF submission; the judges will be looking for a clear plan and evidence that it is delivering on core objectives, paying particular attention to the criteria listed below.

• Sustainability Strategy: Summarise your sustainability strategy, including how it was developed and its main objectives. Explain how it guides your environmental practices in food and beverage production.
• Resource Management: Describe how you manage energy, water, and waste to reduce environmental impact. Provide measurable results, including year-on-year improvements.
• Sustainable Sourcing: Detail your approach to sourcing ingredients sustainably and ensuring transparency in your supply chain. Highlight any efforts to make your supply chain greener.
• Innovation: Highlight any innovations that enhance sustainability, such as new technologies, processes, or packaging improvements that reduce environmental impact.
• Culture & Leadership: Explain how sustainability is part of your organisation’s culture. Describe the role of leadership in driving sustainability and how employees are involved and trained.
• Community Impact: Outline how your sustainability efforts benefit the local community. Include any outreach programs or contributions to social and environmental initiatives.
• Recycling & Waste Management: Describe the steps taken to reduce, re-use, and recycle waste within your organisation.
• Sustainable Supply Chain & Sourcing of Ingredients: Describe your efforts towards making your supply chain and the sourcing of products and ingredients more sustainable. Outline the results achieved to date including any innovations introduced.
• Bio-diversity / Improving Natural Habitats: Describe any activities your organisation has recently taken to conserve biodiversity, use biological resources sustainably, improve natural habitats.
• Energy / Water Management: Describe the steps your organisation has taken to improve energy efficiency and/or water efficiency.
• Sustainable Transport Initiatives: Describe any sustainable transport initiatives your organisation has taken, e.g., to reduce congestion, to green your fleet, or any other any other actions that result in fuel savings, CO2 emission reduction.
• Community Involvement: Describe how you engage with your community and support the local economy. Include any specific efforts your organisation has made to contribute to its surrounding environment or community.
• Staff Training: What commitment has been made to staff training and communication of your green initiatives? What is the level of senior management buy in? Does it form a central part of the culture?
• Bio- Diversity: Describe any activities your organisation has recently taken to conserve biodiversity, use biological resources sustainably, improve natural habitats.
• Community Engagement: Describe how you engage with your community and support the local economy. Include any specific efforts your organisation has made to contribute to its surrounding environment or community.