Sustainability

We’re Building A Better Water Company

BlueTriton Brands was created with the belief that sustainability is not an obstacle to our success, but essential to it. As a water company, we help protect more than 40 springs and 20,000 acres of watershed land for today and generations to come—ensuring that our spring water sources across the U.S. and Canada are safe and resilient. At BlueTriton, we are building a better water company through our water stewardship efforts, circular packaging, climate action, and support for our people and surrounding communities. We invite other stakeholders to join us on our mission because we believe we can accomplish more for our communities and local environment by working together. 

Our Goals*

Our goals are designed to reflect the diverse environmental, social, and economic impacts of our business as we work to promote watershed resiliency and access to healthy hydration for today and generations to come. 

  • WATER STEWARDSHIP*

    • By 2030, aim to replenish 100% of water used or displaced by our sites in priority regions facing shared water challenges

    • Maintain independent water stewardship verification through 2030 for our full enterprise and aim for 100% of our sites in priority regions

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  • CIRCULAR PACKAGING*

    • By year-end 2025, aim for 100% of beverage packaging to be reusable and/or made from an average of 35% recycled material

    • By 2030, aim for 100% of beverage packaging to be recyclable, reusable and/or compostable

    • By 2030, aim for 100% of beverage packaging to be made from an average of 50% recycled or renewable material

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  • CLIMATE ACTION*

    • By 2030, aim to reduce our absolute operational emissions (Scope 1 & 2) by 42% vs. 2022

    • By 2030, aim to reduce absolute transport emissions (Scope 3) by 25% vs. 2022

    • By 2030, aim for 100% of purchased electricity to come from renewable sources

    • By 2030, aim for 70% of our packaging material suppliers to have set their own science-based targets

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  • PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY*

    • Goals are currently under consideration

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Transparency & Governance

In 2022, BlueTriton implemented a multi-tiered management structure and hired a Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) responsible for managing sustainability-related matters. The CSO reports to the CEO and presents and discusses sustainability topics with BlueTriton’s Board of Directors. In 2023, BlueTriton established a Nominating, Corporate Governance, and Environmental, Social & Governance Committee of the Board to provide further oversight over ESG-related issues, including climate change and nature. BlueTriton conducted its first ESG “materiality assessment” as an independent company in 2022, which informed the development of the near- and long-term goals and related initiatives described here.  

At BlueTriton, we are committed to transparency beyond compliance. That's why we launched a Reading Room, for you to learn more about our policies and practices related to water quality, water stewardship, and sustainability. The Reading Room was designed with you in mind, providing easy access to existing information and resources - like water permits for the springs we own, water monitoring reports, third-party certifications, and more. If you have questions or suggestions related to our Reading Room, please share them at btbsustainability@bluetriton.com.

*Footnotes:

  1. Our commitments, targets, aims and goals may change over time for many reasons, such as, evolving and changing nature of, or availability of, standards, changes to business as well as changes in business priorities and stakeholder significance, new industry practices, technology or science, or changes to law or regulatory guidance. Overall, historical, current, and forward-looking ESG-related (including sustainability-related) statements may be based on standards that are still developing or may be revoked, internal controls and processes that continue to evolve, and assumptions that are subject to change in the future, such as unexpected delays, difficulties, and expenses in executing against, or changes in laws, enforcement, investor sentiment or demands, or litigation, relating to or otherwise affecting our execution of, the goals included on this webpage. The information and opinions contained on this webpage are subject to change without notice. BlueTriton Brands Inc. does not undertake to update or revise any of the statements or goals contained on this webpage.

  2. For "Climate Action" goals: goal language may change as it is subject to pending validation by the Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi)   

  3. "Packaging". In our 2025 goal, "packaging" refers to the primary packaging that contains a beverage product (e.g., bottle & cap), excluding secondary and tertiary packaging (e.g., trays, labels, pallets, etc.). In our 2030 goals, "packaging" refers to all packaging materials utilized in the saleable beverage product or during transportation & distribution (bottle, cap, label, tray, films, pallets).

  4. "Reusable" refers to any beverage packaging which is designed to be collected and used multiple times for its original intended purpose by, or on behalf of, BlueTriton (e.g. 5-gallon bottles which are designed to be collected, sanitized, and refilled, or pallets which are designed to collected and redistributed). In our 2025 goal, "reusable packaging" refers only to the 3-gallon and 5-gallon bottles sold by ReadyRefresh®. 

  5. "Recyclable" as defined under relevant or select applicable law or regulation. Materials are recyclable only where recycling facilities exist. Recycling facilities may not exist in your area, and BlueTriton does not take any steps to verify whether recycling facilities exist in your area or that existing facilities are able to or in fact process recyclable materials.  

  6. "Compostable" refers to beverage packaging which is in compliance with ASTM standards, such as, ASTM D-6400 and ASTM 6868 (coatings), ISO 18606.  

  7. "Renewable material", as defined by GRI, is continually replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion and includes materials sourced from suppliers certified for sustainable resource management standards, such as, standards from Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) or Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC).  

  8. "Packaging material suppliers" refers to our largest category of Scope 3 emissions from purchased goods and services. This includes suppliers of materials used to make packaging (e.g., resin) and suppliers of premade packaging products (e.g., glass bottles) for all primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging used by BlueTriton.

  9. "Priority Regions" are determined based on presence and severity of water-related challenges shared by BlueTriton and local communities such as water availability, quality, and access. The identified priority regions may change over time due to evolving science, information, or local conditions or due to acquisitions, divestitures, or major changes to our operations. We have identified seven sites located in priority regions based on water availability challenges identified in WWF’s Water Risk Filter and WRI’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas. Together they currently account for less than 10% of our total operational water use.

  10. The term "materiality" as used herein refers to ESG issues that are significant to our stakeholders and BlueTriton Brands Inc. These “material” issues inform our ESG strategy, priorities, goals, and reporting, but should not be read as necessarily rising to the level of materiality used for the purposes of complying with, or reporting pursuant to, the U.S. federal securities laws and regulations.

  11. “Water used or displaced” represents the volume of consumptive water use for BlueTriton products (e.g. water contained in final products) and the volume of non-product water use which results in water being moved outside of the local watershed (e.g. evaporated water or wastewater treated by an off-site facility not located in the site’s watershed).  

  12. “Replenish” refers the volumetric water benefits associated qualifying activities completed by, or on behalf of, BlueTriton as verified by a 3rd party against the Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting (VWBA) 1.0 guidance or forthcoming guidance from VWBA 2.0 or the Science Based Targets Network Freshwater Hub.