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Small Steps, Giant Leap: R-Oil

Wednesday July 21st 2010

Small Steps, Giant Leap: R-Oil

We have been working hard to introduce new green initiatives to the company in order to reduce unnecessary consumption, reuse where we can and recycle where we can’t.  Small changes such as moving from sachet to free-flow sugar, encouraging the use of real crockery and cutlery over disposables, distributing our chefs’ recipes for leftovers (such as Candice’s banana cake and Denis’s bread pudding) and introducing food waste recycling across our sites, all help to shrink our environmental impact.  We also keep a close eye on new products and suppliers and have recently added R-Oil to our list.

R-Oil is cold-pressed, extra virgin rapeseed oil, grown and produced in the Cotswolds.  Farmers Hamish and Robert Campbell had been selling their rapeseed for industrial extraction, but recognising the demand for high quality cooking oil, researched ways of pressing the seed without heat or solvents and found that the resulting oil tasted very different from the mass-produced varieties.  They could also compete on price and so started selling to local restaurants and shops.

Now they have brought their delicious oil to London and H&J has signed up to use R-Oil across our sites; in the kitchen for frying and as an alternative to olive oil in dressings.  The oil is delivered in re-useable containers and waste oil from fryers is collected by R-Oil and then converted into bio-diesel to run their delivery vans.  The by-product from the pressing is also used as animal feed so this really is a sustainable business. 

Small Steps, Giant Leap: R-Oil 
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