{"id":1359,"date":"2024-08-12T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2025-04-22T02:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:08:06","slug":"sustainability-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/2024\/08\/12\/sustainability-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Sealord Sustainability Excellence Awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sealord is the winner of the Future Adaptation Award in the 2024 Seafood Star Awards \u2013 a highlight of the annual Seafood New Zealand conference. Since 2019 Sealord has reduced its carbon footprint by 24%, a significant reduction of 27,000 tonnes of carbon.<\/p>\n\n

Of the five categories, the Future Adaptation Award is arguably the most hotly contested for an industry that is making great strides towards sustainability.<\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s also a very meaningful category, says Chief Executive Officer Doug Paulin.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWhen we say that sustainability is important to us, we really mean it. We have three to five-year targets that apply to the whole business, to reduce carbon emissions, minimise water usage, reduce landfill and maximise recycling.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not always easy to change things, to reduce adverse impacts on the environment, but Sealord chooses to invest in sustainability \u2013 at sea, on land and in our offices. It\u2019s a real ongoing team effort by everyone in our business to achieve this result,\u201d Doug says.<\/p>\n\n

Seafood New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Lisa Futschek says successful nominations to the Future Adaptation Award required a proven track record in reducing the effects of fishing or processing practices in four areas: carbon footprint, waste, adverse impacts on the environment and adverse impacts on protected species.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cSealord has reduced its carbon footprint by nearly a quarter. This is no mean feat, and they are a much deserving winner in the Future Adaptation category.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n\n

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A shrinking carbon footprint<\/strong><\/p>

Sealord\u2019s reduction in its carbon footprint has largely been achieved through reducing fuel consumption across its fleet of deepwater fishing vessels, through frequent and robust vessel maintenance, more efficient fuel usage generally and the retirement of Sealord\u2019s chartered vessel The Professor. <\/p>

\u201cOur carbon footprint reduction initiatives align with international science-based targets linked to the Paris Climate Agreement. Towards the end of 2023 we were exceeding these targets in our New Zealand operations, and we are on track to do so again this year,\u201d says Doug.<\/p>

While steadily reducing its footprint, Sealord acknowledge that to achieve these targets long term, it will require carbon offsets. In 2023, Sealord announced a partnership with iwi and NZ Carbon Farming, to grow a forest.<\/p>

\u201cWe are investing an initial $10 million over the next 10 years to the development of a carbon offset programme, which will see underused, non-productive whenua developed into permanent native forest over the next 70 years,\u201d Doug says.<\/p>

Playing our part with plastic<\/strong><\/p>

Sealord has reduced the use of plastic across all arms of its operations \u2013 from its export product production lines to the cups at the staff water cooler<\/p>

Boxing tinned tuna in cardboard rather than plastic wrap has removed 20,000 kg of plastic packaging from New Zealand waste streams each year since 2021.  Sealord is now planning to carve this back further by investing in automatic pallet wrappers, which can stretch plastic wrap up by to 70 per cent \u2013 meaning less is needed to secure a pallet.<\/p>

Recycling is a no-brainer<\/strong><\/p>

Recycling is commonplace across all Sealord sites, with the company now recycling all its expired nets and batteries. <\/p>

A waste management programme is also underway for vessels when they return to port and unload cargo and crew in Nelson.<\/p>

\u201cWhen a ship comes in is this incredibly busy period where one crew and the catch comes off, and the ship is turned around for the next crew and supplies loaded on. People are understandably tired, but we have worked waste sorting and recycling into the system so that it doesn\u2019t feel like another task.<\/p>

\u201cAnd our staff feel good about it \u2013 they can tell their kids what they do in their workplaces to keep waste out of landfills,\u201d Doug says.<\/p>

Caring for freshwater as well as the salty stuff<\/strong><\/p>

On the Nelson site, new water-efficient showerheads have been installed to reduce freshwater use by 56 per cent.<\/p>

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing like a good shower at the end of a factory shift, or when you\u2019ve spent a few hours unloading fish, but we can provide these without compromising sustainability efforts,\u201d Doug says.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sealord is the winner of the Future Adaptation Award in the 2024 Seafood Star Awards \u2013 a highlight of the annual Seafood New Zealand conference. Since 2019 Sealord has reduced its carbon footprint by 24%, a significant reduction of 27,000 tonnes of carbon. Of the five categories, the Future Adaptation Award is arguably the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}