The Carbon Trust are independent experts with a mission to accelerate the move to a sustainable, low carbon economy. We are a trusted, impartial partner of leading organisations around the world, helping them to benefit from the opportunities arising from a focus on resource efficiency. We do this by providing a range of expert services to help businesses, governments and the public sector take action on resource efficiency. Our wealth of experience enables us to offer services that are designed to suit your organisation’s needs.

Advice

We work with a wide range of food and drink manufacturers and retailers of many sizes across the world throughout their value chain, to help them understand where the opportunities for carbon, water and waste reduction are and provide project delivery services to help clients achieve these reductions. Whether you’re a business, government or public sector body, we can support you to develop strategies and policies to reduce your carbon emissions, water use and waste production. Our advice will help you innovate business processes and models, cut costs and gain a competitive edge.

Footprinting

Many of our food and drink sector clients have been reassured by having their product carbon, water or waste footprint measured and assured by the Carbon Trust, and a significant proportion go on to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard in order to be able to disclose and promote their resource reduction achievements with absolute confidence. We measure and certify the environmental footprint of your organisation, its supply chain and products or services, so you can identify efficiencies and maximise your environmental credentials.

Technology

Certain leaders in the food and drink sector are innovating their business/manufacturing processes in order to cut their energy use, water use or waste production – examples of these are where we have helped clients to develop innovative ways to recover heat, to clean equipment, to dry products and to optimise ingredient mix whilst minimising energy consumption . We help them to develop and deploy resource efficient technologies by supporting both equipment suppliers and our clients throughout the journey of bringing clean technologies to market, and by helping to put energy efficiency and other resource efficient solutions into practice, with complementary financing solutions