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SUSTAINABLE CHICKEN REARING

We have a keen environmental and energy management policy and continue to invest heavily in energy saving and renewable technology.

SOME OF OUR RECENT ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES INCLUDE:

  • 260kW of solar panels in the factory and on farms that produced 161,757kWhrs of electricity in 2018
  • 3922kW capacity biomass boilers that have produced 7,152,108 kWhrs of heat for the rearing sheds
  • 1200kW capacity wind turbines that have produced 3,349,457 kWhrs in the last 12 months. 65% of wind power is generated at night when demand is lowest so a significant proportion of it is burned off as heat at substations.
  • The factory site has a 250kW battery store that takes surplus electricity from the national grid at night and stores it for use in the factory at peak times
  • A heat recovery system that can heat 25,000l of water per day This system saves the generation of 90 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year and won a meat industry award for environmental innovation
  • Ultra-energy efficient refrigeration systems are being installed as old systems come up for renewal
  • Waste from the effluent plant is used to generate bio gas locally

The combined output from the renewable technology deployed in our integrated supply chain totals 11,000MW and is enough to power 650 homes.

SAFEGUARDING THE FUTURE

Our designated Environmental Officer manages a taskforce to ensure that we safeguard our environment for the fourth and subsequent generations of the Soanes family.

We use the wheat straw to fuel the biomass boilers that heat the chicken sheds.

All of our soya is responsibly sourced to zero deforestation schemes via certificates, either, RTRS, Cargill SSS, CRS or ADM v2. Our partner feed supplier sits on the UK Soya Round Table , the main focus of which is eliminating deforestation from our supply chains.

For information about chicken's low carbon footprint click here.