At Glanmore Foods we keep packaging to a minimum as much as possible. With the individual lunches children are required to take all of the waste from their lunch home with them in the bag provided. They can then separate and recycle as appropriate. This also ensures that parents are aware of what foods their children are consuming in school. Glanmore Foods Ltd. are members of Repak, which helps to support packaging recycling and fund recycling initiatives in Ireland.

Our commitment to the environment and packaging recycling

As part of our corporate and social responsibility charter, we are a member of Repak - Irelands producer recycling fund. Our membership of Repak ensures that we meet our responsibility to the environment and to the Irish public by contributing to the cost of recycling the packaging which we supply to our customers. Over the last decade, membership of Repak has enabled us and over 2000 other Irish businesses to contribute over 200m euro to support Irelands national packaging recycling programmes.

Ireland has achieved a packaging recycling rate of more than 65 percent through our financial contribution and the contribution of other Irish businesses. In 2009 this partnership resulted in the recovery for recycling of over 650,000 tonnes of used packaging. Since Repaks establishment in 1997, over 5 million tonnes of used packaging has been diverted from landfill, with a sizeable benefit to the environment. Ireland is now ranked among the best performing states in the EU for packaging recycling.

Our contribution also supports:

- Door to door recycling collection services for 1.1 million households throughout Ireland
- Over 2,000 bring banks nationwide for glass, cans, plastic and other recyclable materials
- Up to 100 recycling centres that accept used packaging and other household recyclables
- Promotion and education of packaging recycling in schools, homes and businesses

Together, we and other Repak members, through packaging recycling, achieve a saving of over 600,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year - equivalent to the emissions of over 320,000 cars. We thank our customers and all our partners who have helped support this important contribution to the environment.