The ethos behind plastic free

Life is busy at any small company, especially when you're growing fast.  

But building a business nowadays is about more than just growth. 

It's about sustainable growth. 

To build a successful company today, you need to consider and carefully manage your impact on the planet, your people and the communities you serve. 

Lind & Lime Gin is one of those companies.   

We've come a long way

Sustainability has been a part of our thinking from day one. 

In the last year, we've hired a Sustainability Guru (that’s me!), achieved Plastic Free certification for our Lind & Lime Gin and been nominated for a sustainability award at the Scottish Gin Awards.

We've also been laying the foundations (in some cases, quite literally) on what the future will look like and there are a couple of projects that we are really excited about.  We are very proud of our Lind & Lime Gin's sustainability credentials. Made and bottled locally, right here in Edinburgh, using 100% renewable electricity and our packaging is 100% plastic-free. Lind & Lime is also 100% organic and in the coming months we will complete the formal certification process that makes Lind & Lime a 100% organic gin. 

The ethos behind being plastic free

The problem with plastic is not simple to unravel but one of the best ways to understand the scale of the challenge is to look at our oceans.

Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic enter our oceans. In the middle of the Pacific, between the coast of California and the islands of Hawaii, sits the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is around 3 times the size of France and contains 8 trillion bits of plastic, weighing more than 80,000 tonnes.

But the problem runs deeper.

As the oceans break down the larger plastics into smaller and smaller pieces, plastic starts to enter living organisms, like fish. The plastic problem is so dire that plastic is in our drinking water and the food we eat.

We do not know what the long-term health consequences of ingesting microplastics will be but they are unlikely to be positive.

Our bottles are made of glass with real cork stoppers and our protective packaging is paper and cardboard. This means our award-winning Lind & Lime Gin is not only a great choice for your palate but also for the planet.