All Sustainability and environment articles – Page 143
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Comment and Opinion
Consumer preference shouldn’t come into Aldi’s choice of sustainable bag
Aldi chose to roll out compostable plastic bags over paper ones due to ‘customer preference’ – but is that the point?
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News
Greenyard Frozen taps government grant to partner with FareShare
Greenyard is utilising a £15m scheme launched by Defra last year to help redistribution organisations
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Comment and Opinion
Now is the time for regulation to support sustainable, plant-based eating
Meat and dairy products are unfairly protected by regulation at the expense of plant-based foods, says Paul Whitehouse, scientific affairs director at Upfield
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Comment and Opinion
A circular approach can help industry create ‘climate-smart protein’
Plant-based protein consumption helps keep the production chain short, says Fera Science CEO Andrew Swift
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News
Colgate launches ‘first ever’ recyclable toothpaste tube
Smile for Good uses only high-density polyethylene, the widely recycled plastic used to make milk bottles
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News
Aldi rolls out compostable carrier bags to all UK stores
The discounter said the compostable bags had proved more popular with customers than paper ones in a trial
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News
Labour calls for petfood labels to include fish origin information
Retailers must improve labelling on petfood to ensure their contents do not contain illegally caught fish, new shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard has said. Increased customer awareness of food provenance has pushed retailers to include labels of origin on fish for human consumption, but the same standards ...
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Analysis and Features
How US almond growers are struggling to overcome ‘vampire’ image problem
The nut is in fashion, but concerns remain over its water use and effect on bees
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Analysis and Features
Food and drink businesses brace for impact of recycling price hikes
Plastic and aluminium saw the largest price jumps in 2019
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News
Pukka Pies cuts plastic and revamps recipes
The brand has ditched plastic windows from its pie boxes
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News
Quorn to add carbon footprint of products to on-pack labelling
The meat alternative brand said the move would help shoppers understand the environmental impact of the foods they bought
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Comment and Opinion
Chemical recycling offers a way to create a circular plastics economy
Reducing our use of black plastic or using digital watermark technologies to improve the efficiency of mechanical recycling processes will only take us so far, says Richard Daley, MD of ReNew ELP
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News
Sushi Daily ditches black plastic in packaging overhaul
They will initially roll out to the brand’s 90 Waitrose counters across the UK, with the rest of its counters across Europe to follow
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Comment and Opinion
Will consumers keep spending more to shop sustainably?
Brits are facing price rises, but the environmental crisis has never been so stark
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News
WWF criticises EU for ‘missing deadline’ on seafood sustainability targets
The NGO said new agreements would “prolong overfishing” of certain stocks beyond the EU’s own 2020 target
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News
Gousto to use new insulation material in drive to reduce plastic use
The move will see Gousto meet its pledge to halve its use of plastic
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Comment and Opinion
Waterless beauty: the next eco-friendly step for personal care brands
Two-thirds of the planet will be “living under water-stressed conditions” by 2025
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News
ASF pandemic makes pork fraud a real threat, warns Chris Elliott
Soaring demand for pork created by ASF left the sector open to fraud, warned industry group FIIN
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News
Waitrose to boost loose fruit & veg for Christmas as sales rise
Waitrose said environmentally savvy shoppers were increasingly looking to buy loose produce rather than packaged
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News
Christmas food waste a key issue for shoppers, reveals Waitrose survey
More than half of shoppers want to reduce food waste this Christmas