Scotty’s Cutting Plastic

WE ARE DOING OUR PART TO HELP THE PLANET BY SAVING OVER 27 TONNES OF PLASTIC

Our passion for potatoes and Scottish produce is well-renowned, but we are also are aware that we need to be more environmentally-friendly – that’s why in 2019, we put plans in place to make a change.

Since the beginning of September 2019, we have introduced a raft of plastic-saving measures across our range to help protect the environment. This includes introducing thinner, recyclable plastic on our 2kg potato bags, Baby Potato bags and Chippy Chip packs and removing trays inside our Baking Potato packs.

In total, these steps have resulted in Scotty Brand saving 26,890kg of plastic – the equivalent of 17 cars* (or around 2,293 of our own little Scotty’s)**. To tell you more about our savings, here’s scotty with the inside scoop…

David Moon, Head of Business Collaboration at WRAP said,

“Scotty Brand’s parent company Albert Bartlett is an active member of Courtauld 2025, and is focussed on food waste prevention. Reducing plastic packaging should never be at the expense of protecting the food it contains, and it’s great to see the company reduce its plastic footprint while avoiding unnecessary food waste.”

We are continuing to look at other ways to use more recyclable materials and do as much as we can to help protect the planet and minimise food waste.

_{*Based on the average car weighing around 1500kg.  Savings calculated from 1/9/19 to 30/9/20.}

^{** 1 Scotty Dog = 9.2kg midpoint weight for male}