Sostenibilit? a Beerwulf

At Beerwulf, we are passionate about bringing you great beer straight to your door, but we want to be environmentally conscious while doing so. Becoming more sustainable is a huge challenge, and that’s why we want to get this topic on our radar early.

We want to start thinking about eco-friendly solutions and putting together a timeline of concrete targets as we grow. But we know that this topic isn’t just important to us, it’s also important to you - and that’s why we want to share our journey with you, so you can see how we’re learning and improving. We know we’re not perfect yet, but by being transparent and open, we plan on staying motivated and taking meaningful actions.

Our vision is to become a low-impact option for ordering online and experiencing beer at home.  

The Challenge

As an e-commerce business, we face many environmental challenges. These include our current linear economy (making a product, the products being used, the products being binned), our greenhouse gas emissions, the waste produced throughout our supply chain etc.  

We will be taking on these challenges from two directions: 

1. Increasing circularity. We need to work towards making our products circular to stop the usual linear pattern, and keeping that product out of landfill. This can be done through recycling, refurbishing and repairing products.  
2. Reducing emissions, especially from transportation.  

Read about our Steps to Sustainability below to see what actions we have taken, are going to take soon, and hope to take, to address these challenges.

We will provide updates on our progress every 6 months, so stay tuned for more information soon!

Steps to Sustainability

Creating a Sustainability Roadmap

To tackle emissions head-on, we need data. That’s why we partnered with ClimatePartner to calculate our 2021 baseline carbon footprint. This ensures that the emission data is credible and accurate, as it was calculated according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol framework. Now we have the results, we can work towards developing an emission reduction strategy, based on the identified emission hotspots.

It is important to note that we rely on third parties when addressing many of these challenges, as we outsource most of our operations. This means that we are not solely in control of all the choices being made and must work together with external actors to encourage less environmentally damaging choices throughout our entire supply chain. We discovered through calculating our carbon footprint that 99.8% of our emissions are categorised as Scope 3, which means that they are a result of indirect activities and assets. We must therefore work together with suppliers and service providers to adopt less environmentally damaging behaviour.

Here’s where our emissions come from:

• 78.5% - Consumer products such as beer, accessories and beer taps
• 13.1% - Transporting goods
• 5.5% - Product disposal
• 1.2% - Packaging materials

We are identifying possible projects in these areas currently to see where we can enact the most impactful change in emissions. For instance, we are looking into increasing the percentage of recycled content in our kegs and reviewing our packaging to minimise material usage.

Keep an eye on this page to see our finalised emission reduction strategy as it develops!