All Sustainability and environment articles – Page 185
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Category Report
Losing its bottle? Bottled water category report 2018
The humble water bottle has been at the centre of a scandal. Not that Brits are turning their backs on water itself
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Comment and Opinion
Businesses must make the effort on sustainability
Sir, It seems that despite the recurrence of stories regarding the need for businesses to drive sustainability…
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Comment and Opinion
Industry and campaigners reach a crossroads over food labelling
Campaigners want meat and dairy labelling that could carry wording on methods of production similar to what is found on packs of eggs
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News
Hammond calls for evidence in review on plastic waste
The government is also going to look at the possibility of using fiscal measures to target chewing gum litter…
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News
Retailers sign up to UN sustainable development initiative
The launch of Better Retail Better World follows the announcement of the first industry-led Retail Sector Council last week
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News
Coffee cup debate: government shies away from 'latte levy'
Coffee cup debate: government shies away from ‘latte levy’
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Analysis and Features
Sustainability: the world's ticking time bomb
The UK might see itself as a world leader in driving environmental goals but its performance in the 2017 Sustainability Index shows it is lagging behind as catastrophe looms on global scale. What needs to be done, and when, to stop the bomb going off?
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News
Aldi to switch to fully sustainable cocoa by end of 2018
The discounter said own-brand cocoa would be sourced only from Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance or UTZ-certified farms
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News
Aldi makes 2022 plastics pledge for own-label products
Discounter also pledged its ‘support in principle’ of a national deposit return scheme for plastic bottles
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News
Seafood companies urged to improve approach to 'ghost gear'
Report by World Animal Protection says ghost gear is a ‘catastrophe for marine life as we know it’
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News
MSC welcomes Pacific PNA tuna fishery recertification
However, the recertification, approved by an independent adjudicator last week, was described as ‘shocking’ by campaign group On The Hook
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News
Yealands winery launches ‘sustainability in action’ promotion
Four winners will be flown to New Zealand to “witness up close the variety of ways in which Yealands is at the cutting edge of sustainable wine production”
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News
Cardboard cost hikes push beer brands towards plastic
Surging costs are putting small beer brands’ ability to sustainably package their products at risk say craft brewers
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Comment and Opinion
Pull together to rethink plastic
Plastic has a purpose. It is not the enemy. But the way we spec it, use it and dispose of it often is
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News
Wm Jackson launches Boxed ready meals in paper packs
William Jackson Food Group has unveiled a range of frozen ready meals in environmentally friendly cardboard packaging
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News
Pret a Manger to trial Brighton bottle deposit return scheme
Trial could be rolled out to stores across the country by the autumn
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News
Government accused of dragging its feet on deposit return scheme
Whitehall said it would need to consider how DRS would fit in alongside the government’s wider plans for a war on plastic
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News
Defra outlines post-Brexit farming direct payments overhaul
It wants to phase out payments to the biggest landowners first to free up £150m for the environment…
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News
Planet Organic rolls out Unpackaged to two more stores
The London organic chain has now rolled out Unpackaged dispensers to Torrington Place, Bloomsbury and to Westbourne Grove
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News
Starbucks launches 5p charge on paper cups across 35 stores
Baristas will also offer to serve drinks in ceramic cups to all customers drinking in-store