Pizza Pilgrims partners with Zero Carbon Forum

Pizza Pilgrims has joined forces with the Zero Carbon Forum (ZCF) to accelerate its route to achieving net zero, also committing to sharing its sustainability insight and learnings with the sector. 

One of the biggest issues facing pizza companies is the environmental impact of dairy production, which produces significant greenhouse gas emissions. The forum is bringing pizza restaurants across the country together to help address the issue, including Pizza Hut, Pizza Express and Azzurri Group, working alongside Dairy UK as part of ZCF's Dairy Action Group, to understand the UK footprint and levers to reduce it. 

Pizza Pilgrims, which operates in 14 locations across London, Oxford, Brighton, Nottingham and Cambridge, is journeying towards B-Corp certification and net zero. The company recently launched Plant Pilgrims – an initiative dedicated to developing new greener innovations, including making its packaging as sustainable as possible. 

Thom Elliot (pictured), Pizza Pilgrims co-founder, comments: "At Pizza Pilgrims, it has always been important to us to run the business the 'right' way – looking after our people and our community in a genuine and authentic way. A huge part of this mission is to help protect the planet – so, as part of our journey to become B-Corp, we have launched Planet Pilgrims. This is our way to energise our teams, guests and suppliers around the challenges we all face as we look to reduce our carbon impact over the coming years."

Mark Chapman, founder and CEO of the ZCF, adds: "We are delighted to welcome Pizza Pilgrims to the forum. We look forward to working with Thom and the Pizza Pilgrims team through our many initiatives such as our Dairy Action Group, as well as sharing the learnings of the many initiatives they've already implemented. This growing collaboration of the pizza operators will accelerate the changes we need in our supply chain to both reduce emissions and build resilience as we head towards net zero, at pace."

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