At Frobishers, we are committed to reducing food waste and using all available resources in an efficient and sustainable manner. As part of this commitment, we do use wonky fruit in the production of our premium soft drinks. We believe that using wonky fruit is a simple, yet effective way to make a positive impact on the environment and help to address the global issue of food waste.

This perfectly edible fruit can still be used to make delicious juice! Read our blog to learn more about wonky fruit and why it's great for fruit juice and fruity drinks.

Frobishers is committed to being a responsible and socially conscious company, and we are proud to support a variety of charities. We support FareShare South West, the region’s largest food distribution charity. They work to prevent perfectly good food from going to waste by redistributing it to local charities that provide meals for people in need. By supplying FareShare with our drinks, we are able to help support up to 400 charities across the South West and make a positive impact in the community.

We support St Petrock’s, a charity working with people who are homeless in Exeter. This year, we have funded a homeless outreach worker for one day per week, helping the charity to provide consistent frontline support to some of the most vulnerable rough-sleepers in the city.

We have also partnered with Societree to plant a micro forest in our closest primary school. The plant mix chosen has been proven to sequester up to 30 times more carbon than a traditional forest, as well as being significantly more biodiverse. We have worked closely with the school to provide 2 years’ worth of books for the children as well, to inspire the next generation.

Yes, Frobishers is committed to operating sustainably and has taken steps to reduce our environmental impact. We have been certified as carbon neutral since 2022, demonstrating our commitment to being a responsible and environmentally conscious company. We are also a certified B Corp, committed to using business as a force for good.

Most of the fruits we use in our drinks cannot be grown in the UK, and some of those that can be sourced here are not grown in large enough volumes to meet our requirements. We don’t use any air freight in our supply chain to keep emissions as low as possible. Our priority is always choosing the best tasting ingredients from ethical suppliers. We have worked with most of our suppliers for many years so we can trust them to always produce consistently delicious fruit.

Yes, at Frobishers, we work incredibly hard to ensure our packaging products and are as sustainable as possible. Our products are 100% recyclable and all our online orders are sent out in plastic free packaging only using paper based materials.

Our aim is to ensure that the goods and services you purchase are manufactured, used and disposed of in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. If you would like to read our environmental policy, please click here.

We try and work with local suppliers as much as possible. We use Devon based businesses to contract pack some of our ranges, as well as sourcing our product labels and cardboard packaging locally. Many of our ingredients are procured from an Exeter-based business who we have worked closely with since 2009. We prioritise longstanding relationships with like-minded suppliers over profit. We never use air freight in our supply chain to keep emissions as low as possible.

All our packaging is 100% recyclable. Our online orders are sent out in plastic free, FSC approved paper based packaging, and we have recently managed to remove the shrink wrap for our trade sales of cans by using cardboard boxes instead. Local customers are able to return packaging to us for re-use. We have been carbon neutral since 2022, working hard to reduce our emissions and then offsetting the balance. We really enjoy working with our suppliers to try and drive their sustainability efforts forward. 

A few examples are:

• One of our bottling sites is run fully on energy generated from anaerobic digestion.
• Our main glass supplier has installed photovoltaic panels, providing 100% of energy during the day and more than 30% of total energy requirements for the production site.
• We pay a premium to our main haulier for as many journeys as possible to be on trucks powered by Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil or Liquid Natural Gas. We have also worked with our customers to streamline logistics and therefore reduce our transport emissions. Some of our largest wholesale customers are now taking their orders straight from the bottling line, meaning they get the freshest juice possible, and we don’t have to ship to our warehouse as well as to the customer. This reduced our overall carbon footprint by nearly 4% last year.

We are always working on ways to be more sustainable. You can read more about it in our latest Impact Report.

We’re always working to improve! In 2024, we undertook a life cycle assessment for our full range of products, meaning we now better understand the emissions generated from growing the fruits used in our juices, all the way through the supply chain, right down to the end user disposing of the bottle and it being recycled. This has given us lots of areas to work on in the future and has highlighted packaging as our first priority. We have just successfully trialled a new bottle, meaning that our Fusion and Sparklers ranges will be packed in a bottle that is 14% lighter going forwards. This should save us around 341 tonnes of carbon emissions over the next 3 years.

Our next focus is on emissions generated from transport. We are trialling a more environmentally friendly courier service for our web orders and are working with our logistics partners to invest in greener fuel.