Powder Bowl Trading Ltd Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

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Powder Bowl Trading Ltd, trading as BOL Foods, is a Certified B Corporation based in the United Kingdom. Since 2015, the business has focused on plant-powered food and says it aims to make food that is easy to enjoy when people are short on time. Its sustainability position centres on removing meat, fish and dairy from recipes, reducing plastic in packaging, and supporting charitable causes. The company says it has been a responsible business since the start and that business can be a force for good. It became a Certified B Corporation in March 2021 and reports an overall B Impact Score of 89.0.

About Powder Bowl Trading Ltd

Status
Unverified

Website
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Employees
5 - 25

Country
United Kingdom

Powder Bowl Trading Ltd Sustainability Actions

Dropped meat and fish

Our first radical transformation was to drop meat and fish in 2017. Like many others on the plant based journey, our founder Paul was hit with his Cowspiracy epiphany. After seeing the documentary and reading books like The Food Revolution, he started to release what we eat is the single biggest environmental decision we face every day.

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Removed dairy from products

This was followed by the decision to drop dairy from our products in the summer of 2018. By removing dairy from our products, we have been saving 7 million litres of water, 194 tonnes of CO2 emissions and 91 thousand square meters of farmland every year.

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Made packaging recyclable

We have selected, designed and re-designed our packaging to be recyclable, microwaveable and dishwasher safe, free of BPA and more – all to avoid the pitfalls of single-use plastic and to provide an item that is fully up-cyclable as well as recyclable. We have reduced the amount of plastic we use by light weighting the packaging of some of our product range, switching our Salad Jars plastic lids to aluminum ones and have now replaced our forks with a wooden and biodegradable option, saving over 22 tonnes of plastic a year.

Used bagasse and plastic-free packs

We are constantly on the look-out for sustainable and innovative alternatives such as bagasse, a material made from the offcuts of sugarcane that would otherwise go to waste, which we currently use for our Dinner Boxes, and we have developed our first 100% plastic free packaging with our Power Shakes.

Donated profit and meals

Social responsibility has been at the core of the business since the very start, where we donated our first year’s profit to Action Against Hunger, which helped screen and assist 13,000 people affected by malnutrition in the Rajastan region of India. Throughout the years, we have partnered with many charities and donated thousands of meals to soup kitchens and homeless shelters across the country. And whilst Covid-19 had a huge impact on our business and sales, we continued our mission and managed to donate over 20,000 meals to the NHS to support them in their amazing work.

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