In Siyathemba, the community near our factory in South Africa, the local waste site had over the years got in to a bad state. Plastics were strewn all over the fence and were polluting the nearby area, and animals had been able to enter unfenced areas and become affected by […]
Category: Blueprint Blog
Blueprint Award Winners Revealed
The 2019 Blueprint Awards have been announced during the Blue Skies Annual Conference at Sedgebrook Hall in the UK. In total, over 25 nominations were received in three categories; Care for the Environment, Respect for People and Driving Efficiencies. Pictured top left: Lukasz Banas from Blue Skies UK collects the […]
Save our Trees!
Blue Skies Ghana have fought off an attempt from the National Disaster Management Organisation (NDMO) to cut down a tree which the business has sought to protect for the past ten years. The tree, which is 15 metres in height and is a Ceiba, is native to tropical and subtropical […]
Working towards zero waste in Ghana
Our business has grown by providing the highest quality fresh-cut fruit made ‘at source’ at our factories in Ghana, Egypt, South Africa, Brazil and the UK. More recently, we have entered the branded category, supplying our multi award-winning vegan ice-cream. But this ice-cream isn’t just a story about creating an […]
We just removed everyone’s wastepaper baskets!
This week people in our Pitsford office came to work to find all their waste-paper bins had been removed, only to be replaced with funky new ‘desk-top’ bins made from some repurposed old ice-cream pots! What on earth for? Well, normal wastepaper baskets tend to get used for all kinds […]
Demonstrating a more progressive way of auditing
In 2014 Blue Skies introduced a ground breaking new second party auditing system. The second party (the purchaser in the farmer/purchaser relationship) social audits that we do at our farm suppliers in Egypt and Ghana are carried out by our people who live in these countries and understand the social […]
The Ethical Audit
Anthony Pile explores the ethics of the ethical audit This short paper has been inspired by a realisation that much of the material which makes up the basis upon which food retailer ethical audits are conducted on overseas food suppliers to Britain, has come from experts in ethical conduct who […]
Unsustainability
Everyone is talking about ‘Sustainability’ these days. Once they were talking about ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ and then ‘Corporate Responsibility’ became the talk of the town, presumably because the ‘Social’ part didn’t like all the attention and ran away. Now ‘Sustainability’ has rolled up in a flash new jumper and stolen […]