Sustainability & environment news and analysis – Page 281
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NewsMacMillan moves to Soil Association as innovation director
The Soil Association has scored a coup by recruiting the Food Ethics Council’s well-respected executive director Tom MacMillan.
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NewsBritish American Tobacco tops new EA energy efficiency table
British American Tobacco has been named the UK’s greenest company in the grocery industry for its work on reducing energy consumption.
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Analysis & Features
Shut that door!
Many independents claim they are saving energy and cash by fitting doors to their chillers. So why isn’t everyone as open to chiller doors? Elinor Zuke reports
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Comment & Opinion
Our organic food is in a quandary
But it needn’t be – the movement just needs to play more to its strengths, says Dr Clive Black
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NewsThe Green Issue 2011: YouGov food waste survey results
An exclusive poll carried out by YouGov on behalf of The Grocer has shed new light on the attitudes and habits of shoppers when it comes to food waste and recycling.
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Comment & Opinion
Green is the colour
Saturday marked the 2011 edition of our annual Green Issue. It’s fashionable to point the finger at the food industry for the UK’s £12bn food waste mountain (as London mayor Boris Johnson continues to do). But there’s far more to it than promotions and excess packaging.
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Analysis & FeaturesThe Green Issue 2011: Does waste stack up?
The supermarkets say they’re leading a recycling revolution, saving everything from batteries to carrier bags from landfill. Is this true – and what more can be done? Rob Brown investigates
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Analysis & FeaturesThe Green Issue 2011: How green is grocery?
Most big players in grocery don’t shy away from blowing their own trumpets on green issues.
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Analysis & FeaturesThe Green Issue 2011: Who’s got the greenest store?
The supermarkets are trumping each other with state-of-the-art eco stores that cut energy bills and collect rainwater. But is the boom really just about a green image, asks Ian Quinn
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Comment & Opinion
Third Party: Carbon labelling makes better business sense
Shoppers are increasingly willing to stop buying brands that don’t make their carbon footprints clear, says Harry Morrison
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Comment & Opinion
London 2012 is a golden ‘green’ opportunity
Breakthroughs in sustainability from CCE and others will set new standards for the grocery industry.
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News
Indies rage as Carbon Trust drops free loans
Leading independent retailers have slammed the Carbon Trust for scrapping interest-free loans for energy saving equipment and replacing them with loans charged at rates of almost 10%.Since 2004, the Carbon Trust has dished out £160m in...
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Analysis & FeaturesGreenhouse giant: is there more life in Thanet Earth?
Three years after it threw open its greenhouse doors, Thanet Earth is making a profit. Will more such developments follow? Richard Ford reports
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NewsPlastic fantastic for Sainsbury’s peanut butter
Sainsbury’s has switched its peanut butter jars from glass to plastic, in a move the retailer said would reduce carbon emissions by more than 150 tonnes a year. Packaging has been cut by 83% - or 882,000 kilos – as a result of the change, meaning the lighter jars require less fuel to transport.
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NewsBoparan businesses to benefit from big renewable spending
Ranjit Boparan is to invest millions in a renewable energy programme for his UK and European poultry business. Boparan’s 2 Sisters business has submitted more than 40 planning applications for solar PV and wind turbine projects in the…
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Co-op Group’s new wind farm
The Co-operative Group has started work on an £18.5m wind farm in Cambridgeshire as part of a plan to generate 25% of its electricity from its renewable energy projects by 2017.
Seven new turbines are to be added at the society’s White… -
Comment & Opinion
The Fish Fight must continue on many fronts
The sustainability of wild-caught and farmed seafood will be a key element to global food security, says Leendert den Hollander
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Analysis & FeaturesWhy those free plastic bags are still hanging on in there
The media and the green lobby are, as ever, venting their fury but retailers are in no mood for taking plastic bags away from tills, says Ronan Hegarty
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Comment & Opinion
The best laid plans
On the surface, the government’s National Planning Policy appears to be appears to favour town-centre development.
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Comment & Opinion
Carrying the can
Today’s figures from Wrap represent the first time since records began that the number of single-use carrier bags being handed out has gone up instead of down.