Balfour Winery Sustainability Report 2022 (1) - Flipbook - Page 8
4) Inside the winery.
Across production, we aim to use recyclable materials and materials made from
recycled waste to directly and indirectly reduce waste.
As production materials must be sourced from 3rd parties, its critical to work with
suppliers who share our view of reducing the environmental impact of the goods
we producer. We therefore work with suppliers and manufacturers who have
have ambitious and thorough sustainability protocols and policy in the
production chain, meet environmental processing standards (such as FSc and OK
compost), and have internationally recognized certification such as ISO
14001:2015.
The significance of working with responsible suppliers means our drive toward
sustainability is not limited to the site alone but looks to ensure sustainability
across our supply chain.
Production materials.
Glass Bottles - Glass is widely recycled, and the majority of our wine is bottled in
green glass which has a high recycled content. We bottle in two different
colours; green and clear. Our green glass contains 89.8% recycled glass and our
clear glass contains 50% recycled glass. We bottle in Flint (clear), Green, and
Amber bottles across the portfolio.
Reports from industry body BritGlass indicate that a green wine bottle in the UK
will contain, on average, 68% recycled material. From a recyclability perspective,
glass is widely recycled, and can generally be processed to make new glass
products over and over (closed loop recycling). The glass we source is made in
compliance with several industry recognized ISO manufacturing standards. The
glass is very high quality, which improves the future recyclability.
The significance of this is that if glass is of too poor quality to be remelted, it is
down-cycled (open-loop recycling), for a range of secondary applications. The
preference however is a closed-loop recycling system where high-quality glass is
remelted and recycled endlessly, and the highest material value is maintained.
By sourcing high quality glass, we can be sure that the glass we use not only
consists of recycled material but can also be readily recycled for future use.