The House of Botanicals Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

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The House of Botanicals states that it wishes to work for the betterment of people, the planet and the communities it impacts. Its sustainability commitment covers carbon removal, waste reduction, recycling, packaging, refill and reuse, sourcing botanicals with a fair-trade ethos, and support for carbon removal through its webshop. The business says its set-up is powered by renewables and that it is undergoing assessments as part of a commitment to be certified as Carbon Negative. It also says it works locally where possible and avoids synthetic materials in its spirit range.

About The House of Botanicals

Status
Unverified

Website
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Employees
5 - 25

Country
United Kingdom

The House of Botanicals Sustainability Actions

Renewables and carbon assessment

We’re currently undergoing assessments as part of our commitment to be certified as Carbon Negative, ensuring we remove more carbon than we produce via our operations. Our assessments are also taking into account our impact from our personal lives and won’t just be focusing on our business activity. Though our set-up isn’t energy intensive and currently powered by renewables, we wish to have a positive impact on the environment by partnering with a Carbon Capture business as we don’t see Carbon Neutrality as an acceptable option.

Waste and recycling

Though it’s currently impossible to be 100% zero-waste due to spent cleaning materials and the like, we are proud to now generate less than two 100l bags of waste to landfill in a calendar year, reviewing our operations regularly to further reduce this impact. We work locally with EIS to recycle all paper and cardboard, with any plastic received on-site (generally by way of pallet-wrap) processed as Refuse Derived Fuel at a cost to the business, but as a means to divert away from landfill. All spent botanical matter used at The House of Botanicals is processed to be used as commercial compost and never goes to landfill.

Recyclable packaging

Our range of Gins and Aperitivi & Digestivo are packed in recyclable glass with paper labels, and are sealed with a natural wood cork that will naturally breakdown in your home composter. Our Cocktail Bitters are equally packed in recyclable glass with paper labels, however the dasher & cap is plastic and will need to be disposed of dependent on the recycling & waste services in your locality. The packaging used for the transit of our goods, both in consumer and business sales, is sourced from Pitreavie Packaging and ASC Direct. All our bottles of The House of Botanicals Gin and Pietro Nicola Aperitivi & Digestivo are delivered to consumers using Flexi-Hex’s plastic free, biodegradable and 100% recyclable packaging.

Botanical sourcing

The House of Botanicals source our array of natural botanicals with a hyper fair-trade ethos, buying directly from farmers and growers in every case possible to ensure money is funnelled back into the pockets and communities of those who matter. Where we can’t purchase direct due to volume requirements or logistics, we work with businesses that adopt a similar ethical approach to ourselves such as Dear Green or DarkWoods. We also have a commitment to working with local and/or seasonal botanicals such as the green walnuts used in our annual vintage Nocino, the Amalfi lemons in our Limoncello, or the berries in our ABZ Dry and Raspberry Old Tom Gins.

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1% for carbon removal

Via our webshop payment provider, Stripe, we now direct 1% of your total purchase price to carbon removal. Carbon removal projects are sourced and vetted by Frontier, Stripe’s in-house team of science and commercial experts.

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The House of Botanicals Sustainability Commitments

2024

B Corp certification period

B Corp: Dec 2021 to Dec 2024

2023

Refill service introduction

With a planned refit of The House of Botanicals that will see our existing shop & tasting room relocated to the entrance of our unit and a distilling room introduced in our existing office space, we intend to introduce a service that will enable you to refill and reuse bottles.

2023

Trial refill pouches

After months of assessments to find what would work best with our offering we’re now trialling recyclable pouches to offer a refill service for online sales, so you can refill and reuse bottles at home.