All Sustainability and environment articles – Page 279
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Analysis & FeaturesCan food trade catch up on cutting waste?
The latest figures from Wrap suggest households are doing far better than the supply chain at cutting waste.
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NewsTesco cuts weight of Champagne bottles
Tesco has rolled out its first lighter-weight Champagne bottles and announced plans to reduce the weight of all of its bottles of fizz.
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NewsSlow start to winter leaves the mince pies stuck in Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s shoppers have shunned mince pies because of the unseasonal warm weather.
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NewsEcolabel could roll out to cheese and yoghurt
Yoghurts, cheese and processed fish could soon carry a new environmental logo if plans to extend the EU’s Ecolabel to food come to fruition.
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Analysis & FeaturesEco-friendly paper bottles: the shape of things to come?
It is lightweight, stylish, and has already been gracing milk chillers in Asda. Can the GreenBottle to replace glass?
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Comment & OpinionIs this new carbon reduction table just a load of hot air?
A new Environment Agency table that names and shames food companies for their energy use has been branded “pointless”. Is it, asks Beth Phillips
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NewsBracknell store offers glimpse of Waitrose’s greener future
Waitrose opened its greenest- ever store this week close to its Berkshire HQ.
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NewsMackerel prices soar as global catch is hit
The PR boost that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has given to mackerel could be shortlived as lower Norwegian catches, poor weather and the Fukushima nuclear fallout send prices skywards, threatening to test shoppers’ loyalty to the fish.
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NewsPaper wine bottles set to hit shelves by middle of next year
Paper wine bottles could be on supermarket shelves as early as next summer.
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Comment & Opinion
We’re working hard to support small traders
A plethora of government initiatives are providing a framework to help high street retailers flourish
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Comment & Opinion
Such a waste to pour green biodiesel away
Ending tax relief on biodiesel made from used cooking oil is a retrograde step by the government
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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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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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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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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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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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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