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Steenbergs Impact Report 2025

29 April 2026

Steenbergs Impact Report 2025

Steenbergs has achieved its key targets for carbon reduction for 2016-2025 and has set new targets to 2030 that address carbon generated by distribution of its products to customers.

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Steenbergs Turmeric Powder - Recent Heavy Metals Test Results

13 June 2025

Steenbergs Turmeric Powder - Recent Heavy Metals Test Results

Steenbergs organic turmeric heavy metals levels are well below the maximum guidance levels. Lead levels in range 0.065 - 0.232 ppm.

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Steenbergs Cinnamon Powder - Recent Heavy Metal Test Results

06 June 2025

Steenbergs Cinnamon Powder - Recent Heavy Metal Test Results

Steenbergs regularly tests for chemical contaminants in its herbs and spices to ensure they're safe. Recent tests show levels of lead in Steenbergs Organic Cinnamon averaged at 0.8 mg/kg.

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Steenbergs Environmental Impact Report - 2024

21 March 2025

Steenbergs Environmental Impact Report - 2024

2024 got there in the end with sales equalling those in 2023, but costs remain high and somewhat difficult. Steenbergs has reduced its environmental impact, by cutting water use and waste and has continued to reduce its electricity use, but carbon co...

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Steenbergs Carbon Footprint - Drilling into the Data

08 April 2024

Steenbergs Carbon Footprint - Drilling into the Data

In 2016, Steenbergs began on its plan to reduce its controllable carbon impacts. Here, we discuss how we've reduced the direct impacts by over -90% (before carbon offsets) since then..

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STEENBERGS IMPACT REPORT 2024

15 March 2024

STEENBERGS IMPACT REPORT 2024

2023 has been a better year than 2022 in terms of sales which have recovered, but costs remain high and difficult. Steenbergs has reduced its environmental impact, by cutting water use and waste and eliminating electricity from fossil fuels. We are c...

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30+ Plants - how to add more plants into your diet

11 March 2024

30+ Plants - how to add more plants into your diet

Variety is the spice of life or so they say and it’s certainly true of adding different plants to your diet. When we first came across the Tim Spector's 30 different plants a week it sounded a lot but once we started counting and actively choose to b...

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Coed Olaf - Climate and Climate Change

14 April 2023

Coed Olaf - Climate and Climate Change

Having discussed the history of Coed Olaf, we now move onto the nitty-gritty of its environment, so here we discuss its current climate and the likely impact of climate change.

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Coed Olaf - Industrial Heritage of Amman Valley

07 April 2023

Coed Olaf - Industrial Heritage of Amman Valley

Coed Olaf is not only on former farmland but is a landscape shaped by its industrial heritage. Amman Valley was a mining valley and the towns between Ammanford and Brynamman were created when the railway came and opened stations.

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Coed Olaf - History of the Holloways and Paths

31 March 2023

Coed Olaf - History of the Holloways and Paths

Continuing our review of the social history of Coed Olaf, we discuss the tracks that cross the woodland. In particular, there is a beautiful old holloway with two stone-faced banks and trees arching over it like the path in Lord of the Rings.

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Coed Olaf - History of the Woodland

24 March 2023

Coed Olaf - History of the Woodland

Coed Olaf is a newly planted wood with parcels of new and old woodland. Here, we discuss the baseline of how much was covered with trees in the past and if there is any evidence of previous woodland within the landscape.

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Coed Olaf - History of the Farmland

17 March 2023

Coed Olaf - History of the Farmland

Coed Olaf comprises old, established woods and newly planted wood. The new trees have been planted on former farmland, and here we explain what we know of the farming history of the land.

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The First British Poem About Trees – ‘The Battle of the Trees’

20 February 2023

The First British Poem About Trees – ‘The Battle of the Trees’

'The Battle of the Trees' is an old Welsh poem that is about a magical battle where the magician, Gwydion, brings trees to life to help the Britons beat the Picts. This is my take on the poem.

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The Leaning Poplar – Is It A Hybrid Or A Native Black Poplar?

17 November 2022

The Leaning Poplar – Is It A Hybrid Or A Native Black Poplar?

There's a poplar trees leaning over from our boundary hedge onto a neighbour's land and it needs to come down for safety. We were concerned it could be a black poplar, so ran some DNA tests to determine whether it was. It is a hybrid poplar.

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Axel and Sophie's Visit To Allerton Park Waste Recovery Park - 2022

03 November 2022

Axel and Sophie's Visit To Allerton Park Waste Recovery Park - 2022

Axel and Sophie visited the Allerton Park Waste Recovery Site to start our journey to understanding what happens to our rubbish - at Steenbergs and at home. The plant diverts almost all local waste from landfill (93%) through energy recovery.

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Axel and Sophie's Visit to Yorwaste's Harewood Whin Waste Transfer Facility - 2022

27 October 2022

Axel and Sophie's Visit to Yorwaste's Harewood Whin Waste Transfer Facility - 2022

Axel and Sophie visited the recycling and general waste sorting site at Harewood Whin for Steenbergs' mapping of its recycling and waste. It was great to see how the raw recyclate was sorted into corrugated, metals, plastics, and compost.

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The End of Summer Signals Acorns and Berries in the Wood

17 September 2022

The End of Summer Signals Acorns and Berries in the Wood

As autumn begins to set in, Axel has come across lots of berries and nuts on the trees and thorns in the wood.

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Steenbergs Sustainability & BCorp Impact Report 2021

15 July 2022

Steenbergs Sustainability & BCorp Impact Report 2021

Steenbergs first impact report since we achieve B Corp covers the sustainability areas at the core of Steenbergs' ethics.

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Supplier Focus: Necton Salt - traditional Portuguese hand-harvested salt

20 June 2022

Supplier Focus: Necton Salt - traditional Portuguese hand-harvested salt

Have you ever wondered why our Traditional Sea Salt is so clean and white? It’s because it is hand-harvested on the Algarve in Portugal where the summers are long and hot, using a traditional method that ensures the purest of sea salts. 

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