Environmental Credentials

Every industry and business today seems to want to shout about how planet friendly it is. For larger firms this is 'green washing' - a marketing exercise. The fact is 'big' can never be 'green' and in all honesty no business can be perfect - only better; better than other businesses and better than perhaps it used to be.

Harveys has been independently acknowledged as among the most environmentally friendly businesses in the Country. Most recently by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) winning their medium sized Sustainable Business Award.   That means the greenest business between Oxford and Dover. Why? What are Harveys' greenest facets?

consider the following:

Even more important:

• The return to local agriculture of all by-products, such as spent hops as mulch fertiliser or spent grains as cattle feed.  Nothing goes to landfill
• Energy saving devices such as our heat exchanging paraflows which minimise the boiling of water from cold for mashing.

Much more relevant to our Carbon Footprint:

• Harveys returnable packaging: both casks and bottles are returned to the brewery for washing and reuse. Packaging Waste is almost non-existent from Harveys.
• Returnable containers are only relevant for companies that deliver locally. (Otherwise the cost,both environmental and financial, becomes too great to return a container for reuse.) Harveys have turned away trade if it's too far away. 80% of Harveys beer is consumed no more than 30 miles from Lewes.

There is perhaps something even more important than all of the above put together - Attitude.   Harveys genuinely cares about our community and the future.   We are by no means satisfied, we still have a lot of improvements to make before broadcasting that we are 'good for the planet'.  But we would welcome carbon footprint comparison with any other business