All Sustainability and environment articles – Page 60
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Analysis & FeaturesAre disposable barbecues finally burning out for good?
Last summer all major retailers stopped selling them, citing environmental concerns
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NewsChocolate giants slammed over ‘grim reality’ of cocoa sourcing
Kellogg’s, Mondelez and Unilever have been accused of failing to show transparency in their cocoa supply chains
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NewsCake manufacturers face heavy palm oil disruption over EU deforestation laws
New due diligence legislation will require businesses trading in or with the EU to prove their supply chains are deforestation-free
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NewsTroubled Farmison seeks buyer or cash injection
The private equity owner of premium online meat retailer Farmison is seeking a buyer or new financing for the lossmaking business
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NewsEPR: Thérèse Coffey urged to delay ‘blank cheque’ recycling plans
This week the leaders of the BRC, FDF and packaging umbrella body Incpen wrote a stinging 1,500-word letter to Coffey calling for ministers to “take the time needed”
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Comment & OpinionAs Sunak readies ‘Green Day’, food industry initiatives are a basket case
DRS is in danger of going down the drain, while EPR has been described as a ‘fiasco’
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NewsGreen Cuisine partners with Team GB to make plant-based food more accessible
The brand will be supporting the team for a second time as it seeks to make plant-based foods more accessible
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NewsHumza Yousaf urged to salvage Scotland's DRS or risk wasting £100m
A raft of manufacturers including AG Barr, Britvic and Coca-Cola urged the new leader to make the scheme a “top priority” as the new SNP leader
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NewsSupermarkets sign up to ‘unprecedented’ collaboration on climate change
It comes with estimates that food and drink consumed in the UK is responsible for around 35% of the country’s emissions
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NewsSoy traders face stricter EU laws on environment
Soy traders such as Bunge and Cargill will have to prove their supply chains are not linked to illegal deforestation
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NewsMoy Park unveils net zero ‘farm of the future’ site in Lincolnshire
The JBS-owned supplier’s new Beech Farm in Lincolnshire had been built ’from the ground up with sustainability in mind’
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Comment & OpinionRavenous: Henry Dimbleby pulls no punches about policy in food tsar tell-all
Henry Dimbleby’s latest book must be one of the most exhaustively researched works of all time
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NewsSainsbury’s launches fully recyclable super-concentrated laundry detergent cartons
The five-SKU range has also been reformulated to be super concentrated, allowing for up to five additional washes per package
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NewsGressingham Foods invests in new packaging to reduce carbon footprint
The new packaging has been developed with Coveris and Ravenwood and allows the brand to save over 24 tonnes of waste material a year
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NewsWilton launches duo of plastic-free laundry pods into grocery
The unique powdered format enabled the brand to use ‘much nicer ingredients that are much kinder to the environment’, it said
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NewsMedia Bites 23 March: John Lewis, Fever-Tree, inflation
John Lewis keeps making headlines amid reports of its plan to sell a minority stake.
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NewsExiting food tsar Dimbleby launches new campaign to get Brits to eat less meat
The National Food Strategy author told The Grocer he has entered a partnership with advertising giant M&C Saatchi
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NewsPalm oil-free spread The Flower Farm secures Sainsbury’s listing
The Dutch-owned brand has expanded its presence in the UK with its first major retail listing
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NewsEarth & Wheat to distribute wider range of surplus food
Start-up founded on redistribution of ’wonky’ bread has announced plans to offer a broader grocery range
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NewsDunns Food & Drinks to invest £1.5m in pursuit of net zero
The company is also set to trial an electric van as part of the Scottish Wholesale Association’s decarbonising project