New wetland created by WWT partner Glengoyne
Glengoyne Highland Single Malt have created a brand new wetlands area on their distillery land, as a natural and biodiversity-promoting way to process the waste from their spirit stills. This reduces pollution by around 25%.
WWT has attended the opening of a brand new wetlands area created by corporate partner Glengoyne Highland Single Malt, which will help with processing distillery waste and make the area a haven for wildlife.
Glengoyne Distillery has invested £170k on the facility which deals with the effluent from the spirit stills called Spent Lees.
This reduces waste by around 25% and deals with it in an environmentally friendly manner.
The wetland plants were bedded in early May to acclimatise and have now begun processing waste liquid from whisky making.
As a further commitment to wetlands, the distillery has promised a minimum contribution of £5,000 to WWT in the first 12 months of a long term partnership, to be raised through contributions from sales of special bottles.
Glengoyne is donating £3.00 on all personalised bottles and £4.50 on all standard bottles of the core range purchased online using this link.
The agreement will also see other joint marketing and fundraising initiatives with the charity including limited edition bottlings, on-pack promotions and joint events.
The partnership kicked off in early June with a special Father’s Day promotion.
Robbie Hughes, Distillery Manager at Glengoyne said: “We are always looking at options for improving our waste management and wetlands seemed like the perfect solution.
"It allows us to reduce waste, cut down on waste transportation, be more environmentally friendly and will attract a huge range of wildlife to the area, which is already renowned for its geese."
John Creedon, WWT’s Corporate Relations Manager said “New wetlands like this quickly become home to moths and beetles and even water voles, which in turn start to support and attract birds and potentially larger mammals like otters.
"WWT were keen to link with Glengoyne because of their commitment to the environment and because the name ‘Glengoyne’ means “Glen of the Wild Geese” in Gaelic, and WWT’s Caerlaverock Wetland Centre in Dumfriesshire, within easy reach of the distillery, is the winter home of tens of thousands of barnacle geese from Svalbard.”
Glengoyne Distillery is situated just 30 minutes outside Glasgow, in the Trossachs National Park at the start of the West Highland Way and has been producing single malt whisky for nearly 200 years.
