Highland Spring - protecting our people and planet.

The Wider World

As guardians of our part of the Ochil Hills, we’re keenly aware of our responsibility not just to the organic land we protect, but to the Earth as a whole – including the folk we share it with.

Here’s a few of the things we’re doing to support people and planet.

Recyclable Bottles

Every Highland Spring bottle can be recycled – so you can give them another life. And we’re committed to using more recycled materials wherever we can. In fact, did you know we were the first major water brand to introduce a bottle made from 100% recycled PET (excluding the cap and label)?

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Packaging unwrapped

Of course, even with recyclable plastic bottles (cap on), it’s good to use less rather than more. That’s why we reduced the weight of our smaller Highland Spring PET bottles (330ml, 500ml, and 750ml) by 20%, and recently reduced the weight of our larger 1L and 1.5L bottles.

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Highland Spring Water sourced from the Ochil Hills.

Lower Emissions

Environmental sustainability has been at the heart of our business for over 45 years. We are fully committed to a decarbonisation roadmap for our business, delivering projects and initiatives in collaboration with customers and partners which reduce emissions across our entire operations from source to shelf. We are proud to have maintained B Carbon Disclosure Project scores for our work to address climate change and water security for the past three years.

Photo of the rail freight facility in Blackford

Cleaner Transport

The way we transport our spring water is just as important as where it comes from. Our dedicated rail freight facility has removed nearly 19,000 HGV movements from UK roads and over 430 million litres of water has travelled by rail to date. And where we do use road vehicles, we’re transitioning to lower carbon, fossil free alternatives to diesel, as well as using electric forklift trucks where we can.

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Highland Spring People and Planet - the Ochil Hills.

Supporting Biodiversity

We’re all about healthy eco-systems, which is why we’ve planted over 2,500 trees on our protected land, as well as wildflowers for bees and butterflies. And of course – we keep that land protected. And in 2001, that protection was rewarded with organic accreditation by the Soil Association – a standard which we’ve held ever since.

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Highland Spring Team serve water from the Ochil Hills - supporting people and planet.

Stronger Communities

We have been supporting homeless charity Social for the last three years and donate bottles of water to their coffee shops with all profits from their sale reinvested back into the charity. Our teams regularly volunteer for the charity and we are also funding the development of a new homeless Recovery Village in Dundee. Our commitment to being a good neighbour means we also donate thousands of litres of water free-of-charge to good causes within local communities close to our sites and partners/charities across Scotland.

Sport and hydration

We have a national partnership with Scotland Rugby as the official water supplier to Scotland’s national men’s and women’s teams, U20 players, coaches, and support teams to ensure they stay healthily hydrated and on top of their game.

In recent years, we have been the official hydration partner for major golf tournaments including the Women’s Scottish Open in 2023 and supported Kenny Logan’s Rugby World Cup Challenge raising funds for the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation.

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