Plant-Based Bottle FAQ's

The carbon footprint from the bottle is included in the footprint and offset for carbonzero™ certification, so when you purchase Anchor carbonzero™ milk, you are choosing a bottle that is fully recyclable and the carbon footprint from the milk, packaging, and distribution is fully offset.

Yes these bottles are  recyclable (classified as grade 2).  

• Anchor Organic Blue 2L
• Anchor Organic Trim 2L
• Anchor Protein+ 2L
• Anchor Zero Lacto Blue 1L 
• Anchor Zero Lacto Trim 1L
• Anchor Silver Plus 2L
• Anchor Calci+ Trim 2L (Excl. South Island)
• Anchor Calci+ Trim 1L (Excl. South Island) 

Anchor’s carbonzero™ certified range is available at most supermarkets where you’d find Anchor specialty range, except Anchor Calci+ which is certified carbonzero™ in the North Island.

50% of the credits support native forest regeneration in Kaikoura, and the rest are split between a renewable energy project in New Caledonia and solar power project in India. 

As climate change is a global challenge, Anchor appreciates that to deliver globally positive outcomes, solutions must span beyond our backyard.

We're serious about putting sustainability at the heart of everything we do.  While we're actively working to reduce our carbon footprint of our specialty range, that can take time. We know that this is one small step, but this is something that we can do right now - that's why we're offsetting our emissions for these milks.

At this stage, this range will only be sold to New Zealand Anchor consumers. The Anchor range of specialty milks is only available in New Zealand. 

A carbon credit is a way for businesses like ours to support defined environmental projects that store, avoid or reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to balance out the impact of emissions that occur when products are made. We use carbon credits approved by our carbonzero™ certifier, Toitū Envirocare, to ensure the highest quality projects that represent verifiable emissions reductions.

Toitū’s carbonzero™ programme and the carbon credits purchased as part of the programme, are not part of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), and therefore no credits sourced by Fonterra as part of the ETS are used to achieve carbonzero™ certification.

North of Kaikoura in the Marlborough district. The land is 750 ha of covenanted land protected with fencing and pest control to allow native forest regeneration.

Our carbon credits are being invested into developing solar energy in India and renewable energy in the Pacific. 

The carbon footprints of each product are:

To see an overview of where the emission come from for each product you can see our product disclosure on the Toitū website click here.

Most emissions come from on farm. Because each milk type has a slightly different recipe the exact proportion of on farm emissions differs within the range. Emissions from on farm vary from around 70% for zero lacto trim 1L to around 80% for Protein+.

To see an overview of where the emissions come from for each product you can see our product disclosure on the Toitū website click here