All Sustainability and environment articles – Page 205
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News
Waitrose brings back MSC-accredited canned mackerel
Tins sold under the Essential Waitrose own-label range carrying the MSC eco-label started rolling out into stores this week
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Waitrose adds 20 carbon-busting 'boat-tail' lorry trailers
The new design contributes to an annual 7,000-tonne reduction in carbon emissions per lorry
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Comment and Opinion
Soho chefs are right to raise the profile of packaging waste
Ed Baines one of a number of high-profile chefs to campaign on the issue A call to end ‘the scourge of Soho’ landed on London mayor Sadiq Khan’s doormat yesterday. Signed by five influential signatories, the stirring prose demanded a ban on the ‘unsightly’ and ‘damaging’ blight ...
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Average household bins a month's worth of food every year
Amost half of Brits keep bread in the fridge even though this speeds up the growth of mould
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Edible packaging made from milk hailed as food waste breakthrough
New packaging technology could be on market in three years claim USDA scientists
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Comment and Opinion
Recalls don't have to mean waste
In the last year alone there have been more than 100 product recalls as a result of food not being correctly labelled
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Meat freezing advice 'misleading' consumers, claims survey
Retailers encouraged to explain that length of freezing relates to product quality rather than food safety
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Waitrose shows cash is no longer king
According to the latest reports from Payments UK, use of card outstripped cash for the first time in 2015
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Analysis and Features
What's to be done about coffee cup recycling?
With recycling facilities so limited, retailers may hold the solution
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Lincolnshire Co-op installs power-saving technology at 25 sites
Powerstar trialled voltage optimisation units in four Lincolnshire Co-op food stores last year
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Waitrose takes lead on coffee cup recycling
Waitrose is looking for a cup that will be recyclable with all other mixed recycling across Waitrose stores
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Co-op turns delivery packaging into bags for life
The Co-op is boosting its sustainability credentials by making its bags for life from delivery packaging
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Will Aldi and Lidl stumble without the cosseting factor?
Sir, Maybe Aldi and Lidl would do well to consider ‘nudges’ in the manner of Waterstones
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Riverford picks up six tonnes of 'unsuitable' lemons
The lemons were deemed “unsuitable to meet retailer specification based on appearance”
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Origin Green ambassadors land placements with UK food companies
Ambassadors will be tasked with promoting Origin Green sustainability programme in UK
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Plastic bag use slashed by billions since 5p charge
Environment minister Thérèse Coffey hails £29m being donated to charity and good causes
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Comment and Opinion
Will consumers remain invested in wonky veg?
Supermarkets didn’t set out to create food waste. And consumers haven’t always been as fussy as they have become
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Comment and Opinion
Hugh's War on Waste uncovers more picky supermarkets
Would anyone object to seeing any of the supermarket chief executives pelted with wet cauliflower?
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Comment and Opinion
Louis Theroux and Ellie Goulding help with food waste issue
The Grocer’s anti-food waste campaign is bang on trend on Twitter
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War on Waste chef says supermarkets "rising to the challenge"
Hugh’s War on Waste returned this week and proved that levels of food waste in the fields are still extremely high