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We are in a climate emergency
Climate scientists have showed that humans are responsible for virtually all global heating over the last 200 years. Human activities are causing greenhouse gases that are warming the world faster than at any time in at least the last two thousand years. The average temperature of the Earth’s surface is now about 1.1°C warmer than it was in the late 1800s and warmer than at any time in the last 100,000 years. The last decade (2011-2020) was the warmest on record, and each of the last four decades has been warmer than any previous decade since 1850. Just read that one again.
So what are Peppermint doing about it?
Peppermint started its sustainability journey in 2018 when they started working with ex-festival friend, colleague and CEO Claire O’Neil from A Greener Future.
The plan was to measure Peppermint’s ‘baseline’ carbon footprint in 2019.
The first report landed mid way through 2020 (a time where the event’s industry was a little ‘quieter’ than usual) and Peppermint set about its strategy to deliver it’s plan to become a Net Zero business.
Peppermint have recognised that whilst there are some obvious easy wins in the short term, the heavy lifting would come further down the line.
The strategy is about everyone embracing sustainable practices into everything they do – from office waste to transport policies - it has become a core pillar their culture and how Peppermint operate today. But they realise they cannot do it alone - it is going to involve collaboration and partnerships with clients and suppliers alike in order to feed the eco-system of sustainable practices - after all one business’s scope 3 is another’s scope 1…
Peppermint have re-measured their carbon emissions in 2022 and 2023 and have managed to all but eradicate their scope 1 and 2 emissions and reduce their scope 3 emissions by over 85% - but recognise there is still a huge amount of work to do in order to achieve their desired Net Zero status. An objective they are fully committed to.
OUR GOALS
WE ARE COMMITTED.
To becoming the first net zero bar company in the uk. This means we are on an aggressive carbon reduction programme.
We’re not here to greenwash, or tell you what you want to hear we’ve measured. We’ve reduced. We have a plan. We keep going.
WE CAN'T DO IT ALONE.We‘ve got to work with like minded businesses to achieve our goal.
How do we plan on achiveing our goals?
PARTNERS
We have to work with like-minded people and businesses’ to achieve our goals.
You can help us, we can help you. A WIN-WIN
CULTURE
Sustainability is at the heart of the core values of our business.
Everything we do considers our impact and how we can do better.
RE-USE, UP-CYCLE
We upcycle and reuse all of our bar production including bar fronts/back bars,
production elements and always prioritise upcycling existing assets vs creating new ones.
WATER PARTNER
Every drop of Life Water we sell helps to fund clean drinking wells
in developing countries. We are proud to have donated 3 drinking wells already.
STAFF
We always recruit locally and actively incentivise staff to use public transport
carbon low transportation.
CARBON LABELLING
We already include carbon labelling in our food menus and are
currently lobbying drinks companies to publish Co2 information, by product.
HAULAGE
Our policy is to only use Euro 6 vehicles to limit our carbon emissions
as well as pushing our suppliers on use of electric and low emissions vehicles.
PLASTICS & PACKAGING
We have already eradicated single use plastics and continue to
work with our suppliers to reduce tertiary package to a minimum.
How we work with our partners
“Working with a forward looking company like Peppermint Events is a pleasure for us at AGF. Not only are we given the remit to push boundaries, but their position in the industry and openness for collaboration means that we’re able to tackle issues that face promoters, venues, artists and other suppliers in tandem.
No operator in events acts in isolation from others, and so having a 360 view and influence on the green direction of travel throughout the event design, planning, partnerships, delivery and review phases means we can make positive change more impactfully and quickly together.”
– -Claire O’Neil, CEO & Co-Founder, A Greener Future
