All Sustainability & environment articles
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NewsUnregulated Atlantic mackerel catch surge prompts emergency meeting
Retailers met privately last month to discuss the surge in unregulated catches of Atlantic mackerel
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Buxton Water to roll out 100% rPET bottles across entire range
The full range will be made from rPET by 2021
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Brazilian government urged to protect Amazon from soy crop deforestation
It comes after Brazilian soy farmers, who claim to have the support of president Jair Bolsonaro, started a campaign last month
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Waitrose to replace 10p plastic bags with 50p & 75p versions in expanded trial
The retailer hopes to encourage shoppers to reuse the more expensive bags, made from tougher plastic, for longer
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Comment & Opinion
To remain the people’s grocer, Aldi must make progress on ethics
Oxfam consistently ranks the discounter at the bottom of the UK’s supermarkets for its human rights policies, says Morgan Holt, chief strategy officer at Fitch
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Nisa encourages members to sign up to Too Good To Go food waste app
Morrisons announced it would be the first supermarket to partner with Too Good To Go last week
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Shoppers looking to cut environmental impact of Christmas dinner, IGD finds
Plant-based alternatives have entered the top five choices for Christmas Day main meal options for the first time
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ACS offers convenience stores guidance on installing water refill stations
The latest ACS Voice of Local Shops survey shows that 51% of the independent retailers surveyed provide water dispensers
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Comment & Opinion
Progress in tackling the plastic blight is shamefully slow
This week a Greenpeace survey reported use of plastic in supermarkets has actually increased this year
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Wooden pallet ‘upcycling’ could cause environmental damage, warns pooler
Social media sites, such as Pinterest, are fuelling interest in upcycling
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Comment & Opinion
Greenpeace roasts turkey’s ecological impact in comedy battle
The food sustainability debate is hitting the Christmas dinner table this year
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KP continues crackdown on plastic packaging with smaller Tyrrells packs
The bagged snacks giant is slashing approximately 14% of the packaging from Tyrrells’ film packets
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Wholesalers trailing behind retail on black plastic removal
The majority of supermarkets claim they will have ditched own label black plastic by 2020, but wholesalers are lagging behind
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Feedback slams food industry over failures in waste reporting
Feedback said it had been 14 months since the Roadmap launched and suppliers were still hiding behind a “wall of secrecy”
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Iceland calls on suppliers including brands to push plastic reduction
In two letters, joint MDs Richard Walker and Nigel Broadhurst have urged more than 400 suppliers to get behind Iceland’s new ‘10-point manifesto’
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Higher risk of single-mutation ‘hypervirulent’ superbugs revealed
Scientists at Rothamsted Research have warned far more bacteria than previously thought are one step away from mutating
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Industry responds to Greenpeace’s report on the plastic increase
Greenpeace found use of plastic in supermarkets is still increasing
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Supermarkets urged to challenge suppliers as branded plastic use rises
Single-use plastic packaging used by the retailers increased from 886,000 tonnes in 2017 to 903,000 tonnes in 2018
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Britvic signs major rPET supply deal in latest push for packaging sustainability
There was “a significant industry issue in accessing the quantity and quality of food-grade rPet required” to satisfy current demand, said Britvic
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Comment & Opinion
Meat documentary failed to play up benefits of UK’s sustainable farming systems
The NFU described the documentary as “the best advert” for sustainable production systems
