All Sustainability and environment articles – Page 2
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News‘Scandalous’ PackUK blunder sees thousands charged multiple times on packaging tax
PackUK has now written to companies to say it is taking “urgent action” to refund the money
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Comment & OpinionFuture of Food: inspiring stories and reasons to be cheerful
Barney Mauleverer’s Future of Food platform encourages the next generation of entrepreneurs in food to be the change the industry desperately needs
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NewsFour weeks to save UK deposit return scheme launch, government told
Leading industry sources told The Grocer that unless the government agreed to the Welsh government’s application within weeks, the combined launch date was a ‘non-starter’
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NewsNo More Lids takes home top spot at Future of Food
Judges commended founder and MD Chris Brown for ‘game-changing environmental achievements’ in an industry that uses more than 10 million takeaway cups and generates in excess of 51 tonnes of waste every day
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NewsFury as firms charged millions to cover EPR bad debt
So-called impairment charges added include more than £60m to allow Pack UK bosses to cover non-payments
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NewsFarmers criticise lack of food prioritisation in Defra’s environment plan
The government said nature restoration and growth would be prioritised under new plans, with an ‘ambitious roadmap’ to restore the environment, £500m towards Landscape Recovery projects, and new commitments to tackle ‘forever chemicals’
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NewsOrganic food could deliver huge health and economic returns, charity says
The charity said low-income households could generate £8.78 in social value for every £1 of public investment if connected to produce from small to medium-sized farms
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Comment & OpinionWhy credible certification matters for farmers, forests and the future
After a recent category report in The Grocer raised important points about ethical trading certification, Rainforest Alliance CEO Santiago Gowland clarifies the importance of credible, independent certification
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NewsWales threatens to scrap deposit return scheme if Westminster blocks glass plans
Wales has begun the process to appoint a deposit management organisation to run its scheme
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Promotional FeaturesHow high-level supply chain digitalisation can safeguard your margins
Ewa Węgorkiewicz, CXO of the enterprise division at Trans.eu Group, talks digitalisation trends and creating efficient future digital transport networks.
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Comment & OpinionCan the UK Packaging Pact survive without its power players?
The issue lies not in the big names yet to have signed up, but in the reasons behind those absences
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NewsConfectionery giants potentially exposed to deforested Liberian cocoa, report claims
Campaign group Global Witness said its analysis revealed an ‘opaque, untraceable cocoa supply chain’
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NewsPlastics Pact successor faces battle to convince major food firms to sign on dotted line
A series of major companies that helped spearhead the previous pact have all so far declined to sign up
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Comment & OpinionInside Track’s defence is long on indignation, short on answers
The British farming and food industry doesn’t need well-meaning professionals pushing for government-co-ordinated market manipulation, says Mike Coppen-Gardner, founder and CEO of SPQR
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Comment & OpinionCOP30 failed us but hope is not dead for sustainability
Although many world leaders have failed to deliver, civil society and forward-looking governments forging new pathways demonstrate that progress is possible, says Maddy Haughton-Boakes, senior campaigner at the Changing Markets Foundation
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Comment & OpinionFood and farming has the chance to choose a fairer future
It is clear the companies of the future must help build a food sector that is brighter, more inclusive and fundamentally fairer, says Dan Crossley, executive director of the Food Ethics Council
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Comment & OpinionCan Tony’s ethical price rises teach Cadbury a lesson?
Tony’s Chocolonely has been turning up the heat on supermarket copycats this week, as it called out Morrisons and M&S over their dupes of its chunky chocolate bars
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Comment & OpinionIs the COP model broken?
The overwhelming sense from campaigners is that the ‘COP of truth’ ended up as one of disappointment
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NewsPlastic tax overhaul would generate £100m tax windfall, Chancellor told
A Biffa-commissioned report by Hybrid Economists urges Rachel Reeves to overhaul the tax while phasing out the export of unprocessed plastic packaging waste to other countries
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NewsCarlsberg scientists discover gene responsible for crop sprouting losses
Pre-harvest sprouting of cereal crops is becoming more common amid unpredictable weather