Sustainability & environment news and analysis
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NewsMost farmed prawns mislabelled on origin, study finds
Research by non-profit World Forest ID found just 16% of farmed prawns at western supermarkets were from the country labelled on packs
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Feature SynopsisFocus On Infant & Childcare: 30 May
Trust is crucial in the infant and babycare category
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NewsGreggs saves six million meals from waste with Too Good To Go
The food-to-go chain first partnered with Too Good To Go in 2021
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NewsSmol invests for growth at expense of rising losses
Smol, which was founded by former Unilever directors Paula Quazi and Nick Green in 2018, continued to invest in direct marketing to win customers for its subscription service
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NewsHarrogate Spring Water bottling plant plans rejected by local council
The plan would have resulted in the felling of between 500 and 1,000 trees
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Comment & OpinionTesco’s new strategy: this time it’s (even more) personal
After posting another stellar set of results, Tesco’s unveiled a new strategy. What’s it all about?
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NewsLidl GB joins the United Nations Global Compact
The discounter follows in the footsteps of Tesco, which signed up to the UNGC in 2015
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NewsDanone accused of hypocrisy over plans ‘to destroy local UK woodland’
The bottled water and dairy giant is planning to remove between 500 and 1,000 trees from Rotary Wood and the Pinewoods area in Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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NewsGreggs partners with Nesta to measure healthiness of food sales
The collaboration will see Greggs set a target to deliver improvement by the end of 2030
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NewsMore than half of fisheries catches set outside scientific advice
Concerns have been raised over the ‘disappointing’ data from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science about the effectiveness of UK fisheries management
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News‘Serious concerns’ raised about factory farming as ammonia hotspots revealed
Compassion in World Farming and Sustain’s Ammonia Map revealed that the areas of the country experiencing the highest emissions of the nitrogen-based gas corresponded to those with the greatest concentration of large-scale intensive farms
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NewsFirst Milk CEO Shelagh Hancock to retire next year
Hancock will leave the organisation after 10 years of leading the dairy co-operative
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News£80m raise makes Eka UK’s largest early-stage VC for health
The firm’s oversubscribed second fund will invest in up to 30 UK startups in the seed and pre-seed stages
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NewsClean Food Group secures £4.5m to scale sustainable oils factory
It follows the purchase of the factory and 12-acre site in Knowsley in September, which gave the company a fermentation capacity of one million litres
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NewsMCS accused of ignoring government, fishers and scientists
Seafood industry stakeholders said the guide did not accurately reflect International Council for the Exploration of the Seas’ advice, nor considered efforts to ease fishing pressure on stocks including cod, langoustine and mackerel
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NewsIndependent brewers hesitant to embrace cans despite EPR hit on glass
The proportion of beer packaged into cans by SIBA members has fallen from 13% in 2021 to 11% last year
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Feature SynopsisFocus On Oils: 23 May
Volume sales of edible oils finally began to recover last year after poor olive harvests triggered record-breaking inflation in 2024.
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Comment & OpinionDemands for more oil are crude. Renewable energy will protect our food system
Some commentators have advocated intensifying oil production to protect food supplies. This is profoundly misguided, says Dan Crossley, executive director at the Food Ethics Council
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News‘Transformational’ Tesco animal feed site marks ‘step change’ in war against food waste
The opening of the animal feed production facility in Chelveston marks a page turner for Tesco, following a major scandal that derailed its food waste reduction targets