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Cocoa Horizons Programme

It is a core value of our business to adopt environmentally-sustainable practices. From sourcing packaging and ingredients and validating our suppliers’ credentials around sustainability, to working to reduce waste and optimise our use of energy.

We know cocoa will always need to travel from hotter climates, however, we are taking some measures to do our bit for a more sustainable industry. Some measures we have taken include:

  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored Using Thermo-Dynamic Heat-recovery to heat our water; this supplies much of the hot water we use for washing.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored Using PV-Solar Panels to cover the roof of our production facility and contribute to our production-energy requirements.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored Ensuring our raw materials are traceable, sustainable, and ethically produced through supplier screening.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored Taking measures towards improving local biodiversity through plantings in our garden, installation of bird feeder/hotel and bug hotel; sowing of wild flower seeds and fruit bushes.
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We are affiliated through our supply chain to a long-term partnership approach between our intermediary Cocoa-sourcing suppliers and the Cocoa Farmers with whom they work. This is aimed at improving the sustainability and welfare of Cocoa Farming operators. This is vitally important to us as a company with strong values and ethics and a keen desire to ensure fairness of price for Cocoa farmers, and good practices around the environment. We do not use Palm Oil in our chocolate for that reason.

Key elements of the Cocoa Horizons Programme, helping Cocoa Farmers and their Families, include:

  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored Providing education and business planning for farmers so they can increase their own profitability.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored Empowering women through education programmes.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored Ensuring our raw materials are traceable and sustainable, utilising renewable energy to remain carbon positive, and eliminating deforestation.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored Providing education around the environment and impacts of deforestation, which aids in community development.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored A keen focus on providing education to children and creating child-centric community structures with zero child labour.

Origin Green Programme

Key elements of the Cocoa Horizons Programme, helping Cocoa Farmers and their Families, include:

  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored Reducing oil fuel consumption and installing more efficient systems which allow us to increase renewable energy consumption.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored Utilising greener packaging, meaning all our café napkins, cups, straws and food containers are now compostable.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored The majority of our product packaging is recyclable, with more environmentally friendly options being explored with each new generation of packaging.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored We work with our suppliers to ensure more sustainable sourcing and processing of raw materials, seeking to opt for detergents and materials which are kinder to the environment where possible.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored We closely monitor our waste and work hard to ensure items are disposed of correctly to increase the proportion of waste that is compostable and recyclable.
  • Bullets Leaf Icon Colored We have invested in our own spring water well, with precautionary filtering in place for guaranteed food safety. We monitor our water usage daily, in an attempt to eliminate water waste.
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