All Sustainability and environment articles – Page 240
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Analysis & FeaturesAre QSRs doing enough about the supersize food waste problem?
What are fast food chains doing to tackle their own scandal and is it enough?…
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NewsReal Junk Food Project cafés face safety probe
The café chain serving up surplus stock is under investigation for redistributing out-of-date food
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NewsTesco commits to 100% sustainable cotton sourcing by 2025
More than 50% of the cotton used by Tesco’s fashion brand F&F was from sustainable sources as of last year
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NewsArla organic milk ad rapped by ASA over 'better for the land' claim
Complaint that dairy farming was ‘not good for the land’ was upheld by regulator
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NewsHarrogate Spring kicks off ‘Incredible Shrinking Bottle’ recycling push
The initiative with Keep Britain Tidy promotes greater recycling of plastic water bottles when outdoors
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NewsNGOs attack Sainsbury's over Fairtrade row
Group writes to retailer’s CEO Mike Coupe to express dismay at new Sustainability Standards
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Comment & OpinionThe organic revolution forges ahead
2017 marks 25 years of Organix, it’s Duchy Organics’ 25th birthday, and the 70th anniversary of the Soil Association
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Comment & OpinionData can make your business more sustainable
More and more consumers are looking for companies to demonstrate a sense of social responsibility
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NewsM&S plans to halve its food waste by 2025 in new Plan A
Plan A 2025 commits the retailer to 17 headline targets spanning health, the environment and sustainable sourcing
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NewsSmall Scots shops 'can't cope with deposit return scheme'
A Scottish parliamentary report has warned of the impact of a reduction of stock space
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NewsEuro Garages cuts carbon with £6m renewables spend
The forecourt retailer has installed solar panels at more than a fifth of its sites
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Comment & OpinionThe right side of packaging history
In May, Recycling Association chief executive Simon Ellin named and shamed some of the worst packaging offenders in terms of recyclability
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Analysis & FeaturesOur Waste Not Want Not fight on food waste one year on...
It’s been 12 months since The Grocer launched our campaign to tackle the food being wasted by UK food and drink firms
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NewsTesco set to slash carbon emissions with refrigerant switch
Retailer has already converted the first 60 stores to the new system
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Analysis & FeaturesMixed materials just rubbish when it comes to recycling
But as Pringles and Lucozade are fingered, what’s to be done?
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NewsSainsbury's faces flak over its new Fairly Traded scheme
Sainsbury’s has rejected criticism from Fairtrade over the supermarket’s new Fairly Traded sustainability standard
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Comment & OpinionTesco keeps up the eco pace with plan to axe 5p bags
Reducing waste, be that plastic or energy, is saving Tesco and other big companies money and shoppers appear to be happy, but will they fork out 10p for a ‘bag ofr life’?
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NewsSainsbury's trials own sustainability scheme to replace Fairtrade
The scheme will be trialled on tea first, but Fairtrade has warned growers will be ‘disempowered’
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NewsTesco to trial removal of 5p single-use carrier bags
Retailer has removed single use bags from its Aberdeen, Dundee and Norwich stores
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News'Social supermarket' Foodprint plans Nottingham surplus store
Student-led venture will launch its first supermarket close to areas suffering the worst food deprivation