Sustainability
How We Are Doing It
What if the simple pleasures of life, like spreading butter on your morning toast or savouring a freshly brewed cup of coffee, could help reduce your carbon footprint? By making small swaps like choosing our blend of dairy milk and oat over traditional dairy, you can.
At SMUG Dairy, we believe delicious choices can also be more carbon-conscious choices. That’s why we craft our products with a thoughtful blend of dairy and oat milk, reducing CO2e (or as some people call it, greenhouse gas) emissions by up to 54% compared to traditional dairy (take a little peek below for all the details).
This means you can enjoy the same creamy taste you love while knowing you’re helping to reduce your carbon footprint. It’s our way of helping you feel good about your dairy consumption, one deliciously creamy bite (or sip) at a time.
Knowing the impact of your choices matters. That’s why we partnered with sustainability experts HowGood to conduct “cradle to manufacturing gate” Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) for all our products. These important assessments measure the carbon impact of a product, from the very beginning when the ingredients are sourced, all the way to when the product is made and ready to leave the factory. This helps you see clearly how much carbon the product contributes to the environment (see reports below).
To put our results into perspective, we have compared the CO2e emissions for each of our products to their traditional dairy counterparts, from cradle to manufacturing gate to understand the potential carbon emissions reduction made achievable by switching to our SMUG Dairy products. Below, you’ll find the links to these assessments.
To make it even clearer, we’ve also calculated what other little wins you could have with the emissions saved by using SMUG Dairy products instead of dairy equivalents for a whole 365 days (you can find our methodology below).
Calculation Method
SMUG Dairy Salted Butter Blended with Oat has 42% less C02e/kg then salted British butter assessed from farm to pack (cradle to manufacturing gate).
A regular butter buyer could save 21.84kg of CO2e per year by switching to SMUG Butter Blended with Oat – that’s enough to travel 339 miles on a train, or from London to Paris (and over 30 smug miles back).*
SMUG Dairy Spreadable Butter Blended with Oat has 54% less C02e/kg then Salted British Butter assessed from farm to pack (cradle to manufacturing gate).
By choosing SMUG Spreadable Butter Blended with Oat for a year, a regular butter buyer could save 25.41kg of CO2e – equivalent to 391 train miles or a trip from London to Amsterdam with enough left for stroopwafels.*
SMUG Dairy Cheddar with Oat has 42% less C02e/kg then standard British cheddar assessed from farm to pack (cradle to manufacturing gate).
SMUG Dairy Grated Cheddar with Oat has 42% less C02e/kg then standard cheddar assessed from farm to pack (cradle to manufacturing gate).
SMUG Dairy Sliced Cheddar with Oat has 42% less C02e/kg then standard cheddar assessed from farm to pack (cradle to manufacturing gate).
Smug Dairy Blended Oat & Dairy Whole Milk has 21% less C02e/kg then standard whole milk assessed from farm to carton (cradle to manufacturing gate)
Switching to SMUG Whole Milk with Oat could save a regular whole milk buyer 85.5kg of CO2e in a year – which is approximately enough energy to power a washing machine for up to 11 years, depending on how often you wash.*
SMUG Dairy Semi-Skimmed Milk with Oat has 18% less C02e/kg then standard semi skimmed milk assessed from farm to (farm to carton or farm to manufacturing gate)
Choosing SMUG Semi-Skimmed Milk with Oat could save 53.2kg of CO2e per year – enough to power a washing machine for roughly 6.86 years. That’s a lot of clean smug socks.
