With the extreme weather experienced in the UK in the last week, the penny seems to have dropped that the climate crisis is real and very close to home.
With the extreme weather experienced in the UK in the last week, the penny seems to have dropped that the climate crisis is real and very close to home.

The Climate Crisis has been in the news more and more over the last decade but more often than not this crisis seems to have been pushed to the back of people’s mind. However, with the extreme weather experienced in the UK in the last week, the penny seems to have dropped with the reality that this crisis is real and much closer to home. As is the case with the UK, temperature records are being broken across Europe, whilst the frequency of heatwaves and wildfires across Asia and the Americas means that similar climate change reality checks are being felt.
For some time now, GFW have been considering our own environmental footprint and looking at ways in which we can create a business embodied through the principals of sustainability. It’s a far cry from the last two years, where we have been swimming upstream against the tide of Covid, but the challenge is no less daunting though for completely different reasons.
At GFW we like to do things well and, with this in mind, we have to accept that our drive to sustainability will not be easy or quick but we will be fully committed to the task, which we will complete to the best of our ability. Our framework will be comprehensive, leaving no stone unturned across the business. Packaging is the most obvious candidate for review and sustainable improvement but a holistic review across our entire supply chain will uncover every opportunity to make positive change for the future.
In the coming months, we will be engineering and in time sharing our plans for a sustainable future and GFW’s roadmap towards net zero.