8 ways to hit your sustainability goals

19-Feb-2024 - Last updated on 19-Feb-2024 at 10:04 GMT

Top tips: we've got advice how to boost your green credentials (image: Getty/J Studios)

The Morning Advertiser has joined forces with Heineken UK to showcase a number of simple and straightforward steps operators can take to cut the footprint of your business.

Heineken has produced a White Paper where you’ll find Great British Pub Award finalists for the Best Sustainable Pub category reveal their tips and tricks to being more environmentally friendly.

This includes housing a hydroponic farm, growing produce on site, utilising whole animal carcasses and vegetable cut offs.

The paper looks at the new EPC legislation and how operators can ensure they are abiding by the rules while saving money and energy.

8 top tips on boosting your sustainability credentials:

Measure your energy usage to understand what you’re using and when.
Leaving kitchen extractors on can cost £300 a week, turn them off.
Prepare for the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards
Review operations with team members to help everyone look at changes
Use edible and shelf-stable garnishes on cocktails
Only chill the space you need in the cellar
Showcase your food offer on digital menus rather than printed
Ensure staff wear durable uniforms that are made from sustainable materials to decrease the need for changing them as regularly

Heineken on-trade sales director Will Rice said: “As we enter a crucial phase dealing with the climate crisis, pressure to reduce and eliminate is mounting.

“For the hospitality industry, never has it been more important to reduce energy usage and ultimately, lower costs.”

The Morning Advertiser editor Ed Bedington emphasised the importance of being environmentally friendly seriously.

He said: “Sustainability is a term regularly bandied about but the reality is, improving the sustainable credentials of your business have never been more important.

“Both from an environmental and efficiency basis, implementing measures to improve your sustainability can pay off in a number of ways, from cutting costs and waste to attracting young talent into your business.

“The need to focus on improving how you conduct your operation and reducing your impact on the environment has never been more important and it is an area where the hospitality sector could easily be doing and having a greater impact.”