Love Your
Mother Earth
It’s in our nature
Absolut Vodka is made with winter wheat and pristine water, but that’s not all. It’s also made with love for our mother earth.
Like most Swedes, we have the upmost respect for our environment and believe we all have a responsibility to protect and preserve it for generations to come.
This love and respect for our natural surroundings has shaped how we produce our vodka from the very beginning. Over the years, we have gone further by developing the beliefs and principles we have always lived by into a set of sustainability goals. These now influence everything we do.
The story so far
THE STORY SO FAR
By making conscious choices, we’ve made significant improvements in the following key areas:
Absolut Vodka is made from winter wheat, which gets almost all the water it needs from rain, normally no irrigation is required. The specific varieties of winter wheat Absolut specifies also require less nutrients, herbicides and pesticides than most, further reducing the environmental impact.
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― Absolut is produced in one of the most energy efficient distilleries on the planet. We use 60% less energy to distill a liter of alcohol than the average distillery*.
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― Carbon neutral since 2013, our CO2 emissions from the production of one liter of alcohol are 98% lower than the average distillery*.
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― The main by-product from the production process, stillage, feeds around a quarter of a million very happy pigs and cows locally, on the days that the distillery is operationalRead more about turning by-products into resources...
― During 2019/20, we used 5.6 liters of water to produce every liter of Absolut Vodka. That’s around 25% less than in 2004.
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― Absolut’s iconic bottle is now made from more than 50% recycled glass.
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― Since 2014, we’ve been working hard to drive down emissions from transportation. Today, at least 70% of Absolut’s local transport of wheat, glass, spirits, stillage, cardboard and caps runs on renewable fuel, while 70% of Absolut bottles leaving Åhus are shipped by sea, further reducing emissions.
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And because everyone in the company shares the same belief that we should only develop sustainably, we’re going to go on making environmental improvements and trying to do everything even better in the future.
*Calculated from the distilleries which participated in the BIER 2018 Benchmarking Executive Summary
The road ahead
We’ve made significant progress on our sustainability journey, but we want to go further.
We will continue to grow and leverage our business to reach our vision. One Sustainable Circular Source with zero emissions, zero waste and 100% recycling.
Our ambitions for 2030 are:
Sustainable agriculture
All the agricultural practices defined in the Absolut cultivation concept to be verified as sustainable.
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Net zero climate impact from wheat cultivation, packaging production, vodka production and distribution to markets.
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Circular resource use throughout the entire production chain, including sustainable product packaging and product recycling in markets.
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Absolut to be recognized as a leader in sustainability in the global spirits industry.
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