Our Environmental Targets

We hold ourselves accountable for reducing single-use products, here to support and champion the innovation of processes with circular economy principles, and the conscientious disposal of items in line with the waste hierarchy.

EMS Targets:

1. Reduce waste through reuse and partnerships to donate items.
2. Reduce non-recyclable waste from 41% to 25% by 2025.

We aim to ensure transparency and traceability of coffee, with a commitment to long-term, mutually beneficial supplier relationships, and collaboration with suppliers to achieve social and environmental improvements.

EMS Targets:

1. Enhance communications to raise awareness, educate, and share progress transparently. 
2. Collect continual feedback on our overall impact to better understand issues. 
3. Develop strategies to reinvest in our supply chain. 
4. Deliver on our social value commitments at the British Library, giving back to the local immediate area. 

Tackling climate change is no small feat, quick fix, or short-term plan; it’s a lifetime of commitment and view to do business differently. As such we have worked, and continue to work, to assess and change practices throughout every area of our operations.

EMS Targets

We’re now working on setting science-based targets to build this critical road map to Net Zero. 

Science-based targets show organisations how much – and how quickly – they need to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to prevent the worst effects of climate change. Net zero means achieving a balance between the carbon emitted into the atmosphere, and the carbon removed from it. This balance – or net zero – will happen when the amount of carbon we release into the

We have a responsibility to make decisions that benefit all employees, provide safe and positive working environments, and promote a culture of inclusivity, diversity, and equality.

EMS Targets

Deliver targets within Origin’s Employee Health and Wellbeing Strategy, which is available to all Origin staff in the form of an employee handbook.

We have always prioritised purchasing through Direct Trade. This means wepay a premium – above the commodity market price – for quality coffee, making sure we cover the cost of production. Through consistent, long-term contracts and agreements, and regular producer surveys, we will ensure that our relationships remain mutually beneficial, committed to protecting the livelihoods and the overall future of speciality coffee.

EMS Targets

Source 65% of coffee from underrepresented communities (from a geographical context, in relation to the global poverty index)by 2026.