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Palm Oil

MAKING THE WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
THROUGH SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL

OUR PALM OIL JOURNEY

Edsential are the first catering company in the world to use only sustainable palm oil in our menus. In 2018, we were asked how we were going to support the use of sustainable Palm Oil through school catering. Rather than just promote the use of sustainable Palm Oil, we elected to reassess our whole supply chain model and challenge ourselves to become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) as the World’s First Certified Sustainable Palm Oil Catering Company.

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WHAT HAS BEEN DONE AS PART OF OUR PALM OIL CERTIFICATION JOURNEY

For over 12 months our Menu and Supply Chain Manager worked tirelessly to ensure that any products which contain palm oil and are used in our menus are sourced sustainably. This involved tasting, trialling and testing a variety of foods and ingredients to ensure that products used in our menus are of the highest quality and have the best taste.

We enrolled in the Sustainable Palm Oil City Project in Chester with a view to ensuring that any palm oil present in the food served in our school kitchens was only sought from certified sustainable sources.

WHY DO WE NEED TO BE SUSTAINABLE

Palm Oil is the worlds most commonly used vegetable oil

  • Approximately 50% of consumer products contain palm oil,
    and 70% of our cosmetics and household detergents contain
    materials derived from palm oil.
  • To produce the same amount from alternative vegetable crops you would need anything between 4 and 10 times more land, shift the problem to other parts of the world and threaten other habitats and species.
  • Palm Oil products are a major contributor in cutting down
    rainforests, threatening wildlife like the Orangutan, Pygmy
    Elephant and Sumatran Rhino and increasing greenhouse
    gases which contributes to climate change.
  • There are 4.5 million people who depend on producing palm
    oil for their livelihood.
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Check our progress at www.rspo.org
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SUPPORTING US ON OUR JOURNEY

We work closely with a wide network of environmental and conservation leaders as part of our journey in empowering young people to lead environmental change.

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