Global Day of Action for the Climate #COP26
Toast The Coast Pledge
- Will not serve food products to food tour customers that contains Palm Oil or derivatives.
- Will seek out local organic & chemical free products with support to farmers who do not use nitrates or antibiotics.
- Will support businesses with food tour visits that demonstrate commitment to the local community, use of local food, sustainability, to the season, that minimise food mileage & carbon footprint.
- Will always promote seasonal food cooking & serve to food tour guests, whilst supporting businesses who need guidance in maintaining or re-starting this ethos.
- Will partner with business who have made their own carbon footprint & climate action pledges.
- Will use sustainable packaging if need to use packaging, focusing on glass and no plastic, compostable and re-useable packaging. Using refill stores & refill containers.
- Will recycle business & customer materials/waste when applicable.
- Will communicate, conduct marketing & business operations at a 90 % digital operating level to reduce travel, carbon emission and need for printed paper & materials.
- Will charge laptop & smartphone on home office solar panel system, aiming for 100% operating level.
- Will minimise vehicle use for personal and business to business travel by at least 25% and condense location driven meetings into one to two working days per week.
- Will have a maximum of two plane journeys per year.
- Will seek out & roadmap an 8-year hybrid/battery or renewable vehicle fleet partnership for food touring requirements.
- Will dispose of daily food, coffee granules and kettle water as recycled waste/feed to plants & herbs.
- Will source daily food as a continued commitment to sustainable sources: local farm veg boxes, local farm butchered meet, local fish, local bakery and glass bottle returned farm milk.
- Will continue weekly voluntary commitments that include promotion of slow food and environmental preservation.
- Will reduce fast fashion use, sending clothing onward for reuse and sourcing sustainable materials & recycled material use in new clothing.
- Will use silicone free shampoo to keep looking fresh!
- Will include in every food tour & experience day, the story of local people, local groups and local business who are champions in protecting the local environment, sustainability, and climate change pledges.
- Will keep informed of climate action recommendations & sustainability opportunities that can be applied to play a part as one person, encourage every person can take a step & take as many steps as possible to support climate action.
