Sustainability & environment news and analysis – Page 233
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Analysis & Features
Would abolishing use-by dates really help stop milk waste?
Headlines suggesting consumers ’sniff’ milk to see if it is still fresh, has once again highlighted the controversy surrounding food labelling and the problem of waste in the industry
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News
Relex to cut fresh & chilled waste at WH Smith Travel
Relex will help improve demand forecasting and replenishment and increase availability at its 768 transit stores
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News
Startup coffee brand Halo adds fully biodegradeable pods
The lineup is made from a “100% natural” mix of fibres, including bamboo and paper
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Scrapping of use-by-dates on milk urged in bid to cut waste
Wrap report urges more packaging changes to cut food waste
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Comment & Opinion
Millions of people like farmed salmon
Dr Martin Jaffa of Callander McDowell and Scott Landsburgh of the SSPO respond to Joanna Blythman’s latest column on Scottish farmed salmon
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News
Bibby changes tanker units to slash juice transport CO2
Bibby Distribution has slashed the carbon emissions involved in transporting fruit juice by using lighter tanker units
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Shell opens first zero-emissions refuelling station in UK
ITM Power created the site for hydrogen-powered cars at the oil company’s Cobham service station on the M2
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Comment & Opinion
We must keep pushing on packaging efficiency and recycling
Resource efficiency has long been at the heart of our thinking around sustainability
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Comment & Opinion
Scotland's farmed salmon industry stinks
Scotland’s salmon farming industry is being eaten away by sea lice, which stalk large concentrations of farmed fish
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News
Sainsbury's to remove all plastic from its cotton buds
Supermarket will use a biodegradable glue having already pledged to replace the plastic stick with paper by the end of 2017
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News
Waitrose adds 10 biomethane-fuelled trucks to fleet
Each new truck cost Waitrose 50% more than the diesel equivalent, but offers fuel savings of up to £20,000 annually
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News
Coca-Cola in shock move to back bottle DRS schemes
Coca-Cola is to swing its weight behind controversial plans for a bottle deposit return scheme (DRS) in the UK having been the focus of attacks by campaign groups and the media for spearheading opposition to the idea
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News
Food waste webinar: meet the panellists
The broadcast will feature experts from Tesco, Unilever, FareShare and Company Shop
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News
Quiz industry leaders on food waste in The Grocer's webinar
“A unique opportunity to grill some of the biggest names in food and drink on the industry’s biggest challenge”
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News
New Co-op ad champions Fairtrade and British sourcing
The society is targeting a million new members by the end of 2017 - a year ahead of its original plans
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Fyffes to face Ethical Trading Initiative inquiry
Fruit importer could be suspended from ETI if found guilty of breaking code of conduct over treatment of workers
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News
Starbucks and Costa unveil coffee cup recycling schemes
Initiatives come after Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall highlighted scale of waste…
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Category Report
Fairtrade for the people: Fairtrade category report 2017
Thousands more shoppers pouring into the Fairtrade market means 94% of the population are now in on the revolution. So how much has Mars had to do with this?
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News
Tesco reaffirms food waste commitment after bin-diver's find
Cardiff resident found “mountain” of bread, meat, cakes, vegetables and chocolate outside Tesco store
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Analysis & Features
Surplus food won’t fix food waste. Our expert webinar will grill experts on what will work
As part of the Waste Not Want Not campaign, we’ll be hosting our first ever webinar featuring experts from Unilever, Tesco, FareShare and Company Shop on hand to answer your questions