Origin Green is Ireland's food and drink sustainability programme

Requirements:

• Applicants must produce or handle food for human consumption.
• Companies must have a minimum turnover of >€100,000 per annum to participate in the Origin Green Charter.
• Applicants must have a ROI based production facility(ies) to be eligible to participate in the Origin Green Charter.
• All manufacturing as it relates to inclusion in the Origin Green plan must be ROI based.
• Applicants must be in production for a minimum of one full calendar year prior to applying for the Origin Green charter. This will ensure baseline data to develop sustainability targets is available from the outset.
• Applicants must ensure they are formally registered as a Bord Bia client.
• Primary meat processor with a turnover >€50 million (Tier 1 & 2) or operations defined by Bord Bia as high risk (any Tier) must be a member of the Bord Bia Food Processor Standard (FPS)

• An individual mentor is assigned to work with each company to help them develop their bespoke company sustainability plan. 
• Membership is awarded to companies who have their plans verified by a third party and continue to make progress against their sustainability targets each year.
•  Membership benefits include access to bespoke, low cost, sustainability guidance and upskilling through the Origin Green academy along with the use of the Origin Green logo and assets in order to identify as an Origin Green member. 

Note: Origin Green is a business to business initiative and is not a consumer facing logo/campaign.

• Membership of Origin Green provides Irish food and drinks companies with third party proof of their sustainability commitments to share with their customers and other key stakeholders such as employees, investors and the general public. 
• It also provides companies with a low cost way of staying on top of sustainability market place requirements, regulation and policy.