Environmentally Friendly

Recycling

We take a lot of care preparing our goats’ milk products, and just as much care making sure they get to you in perfect condition. But when we pack them we’re also very aware of our responsibility to the environment and we ‘do our bit’ wherever we can.

The main packaging materials used are paperboard cartons for our milk and plastic for our yogurts and cheese.

Fresh Whole, Semi-skimmed and UHT Whole and Chocolate Milk

The packaging for these products can be recycled. The cartons are manufactured by Tetra Pak who are working hard to make carton recycling widely available… including approaching individual local authorities to encourage them to provide carton recycling facilities. Click here to find out where you can recycle cartons in your area.

There’s more good news. Our cartons are printed and delivered on rolls, which means one truck can transport enough material to pack nearly 1,000,000 standard 1 litre cartons. It would take over 50 trucks to deliver the same number of pre-formed bottles. For more information, click here.

Yogurts

Our yogurt pots are made of polypropylene and can be easily recycled. If your local authority collects plastics from your kerbside, that’s perfect. Alternatively, most local recycling centres provide a facility for recycling plastics.

Unfortunately the foil lids cannot currently be recycled because they are printed with coloured ink. This is something we are actively trying looking to improve. Watch this space…

Cheese

Spreadable Cheese
Our polypropylene cheese pot is recyclable so can be added to your other plastics if your local authority does kerbside collections. If not, your local recycling centres will probably provide a facility.

The cardboard sleeve around the pot is also fully recyclable and can be put in with your other paper and cardboard for recycling.

Medium Hard Cheese
The plastic wrap around this cheese isn’t recyclable, but this is something we’re trying to rectify.

Farmhouse Mature Hard Cheese
As with the medium hard cheese, the plastic wrap is not recyclable but the cardboard sleeve can be added to your other waste paper and cardboard for recycling.

Greek Goats’ Cheese
The plastic wrap used for the Greek Goats’ Cheese can be added to your plastics for recycling, but you need to cut the label off first.

Butter

Butter packaging is not recyclable because it’s a combination of foil and paper and, currently, there are no facilities to separate them. But you could always keep them in the fridge and use to grease or line baking tins!

Goats’ Milk Powder

The Goats’ Milk Powder tub is made of polypropylene and so can be picked up at the kerbside if your local authority provides a collection. If they don’t, most local recycling centres provide a facility.