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Pearse Lyons Distillery (2022)

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Pearse Lyons Distillery (2022)

Publishing organisations:

Editorial team

Relevant countries:

Ireland

Organisation types:

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

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Pearse Lyons Distillery is a working boutique whiskey distillery in Dublin's Liberties Quarter. Set in the fully restored St. James's Church, Pearse Lyons Distillery offers a full visitor experience with a guided tour and tasting of its range of whiskeys and gin.

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Editorial team

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Ireland

Organisation Type

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

  • CoC aspirational objectives

    • 2. Prevention and reduction of food loss and waste

    • 4. An optimised circular and resource-efficient food chain in Europe

    • 6. Sustainable value creation in the European food supply chain through partnership

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Commitments by aspirational objectives

Aspirational objective 2: Prevention and reduction of food loss and waste (at the consumer level, within internal operations, and across value chains)

With the following aspirational target: 

A 50% reduction of per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level by 2030 and reduced food losses along the food production and supply chains in the EU.

Pearse Lyons commitments:

  • Increase end-to-end raw material conversion rate by 2% per year until 2025.

     

Aspirational objective 4: An optimised circular and resource-efficient food chain in Europe

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resource efficiency within own operations, contributing to sustainable, efficient use and management of energy and natural resources in operations by 2030. 

b) Improved sustainability of food and drink packaging, striving for all packaging towards circularity by 2030.

Pearse Lyons commitments:

  • Increase post-consumer recycled components of materials used in packaging by 4% year on year from a baseline set at year-end of 2020.

     

Aspirational objective 6: Sustainable value creation in the European food supply chain through partnership

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resilience and competitiveness of companies operating at any point along the food value chain by 2030.

b) Continued progress towards sustainable production, contributing to sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources by 2030 and improved animal welfare.

Pearse Lyons commitments:

  • Maintain 100% grain (by weight) from IGAS or equivalent certified sources. 

Full detail of the pledge in the provided attachment.

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Pledge of Pearse Lyons Distillery
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