All Sustainability and environment articles – Page 87
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NewsAbel & Cole launches first refillable plastic milk bottle
Its Club Zero milk product will join its growing refillable range, using packaging that will save Abel & Cole 450,000 single-use plastic milk bottles
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NewsDiageo launches scotch whisky regenerative agriculture programme
The spirits giant is to work with 20 key barley and wheat farm growers to ‘advance locally suitable regenerative agricultural interventions’
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NewsQuorn owner hit by cost hikes and falling demand in meat-free
Quorn parent Marlow Foods has plunged into the red as soaring costs, falling demand for plant-based in supermarkets and one-off redundancy charges hit the Monde Nissin-owned group.
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Comment & OpinionBamboo: the sustainable alternative to toilet paper production?
Forest loss continues to ramp up, despite worldwide pledges to stop something that contributes significantly to global warming
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NewsTails.com founders to launch circular online grocer
As the service matures, it aims to offer around 80% of a typical grocery basket
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NewsPlanning delays slowing growth of free-range egg production
Producers have warned the egg sector is being held back over often unfounded sustainability concerns
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Comment & OpinionThe true environmental cost of petfood
Petfood sales in Europe are growing fast and now the industry is worth a reported €29.1bn. Great news for producers and retailers, but perhaps not so much for an already strained climate
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Comment & OpinionHow can businesses put sustainability at the centre of operations?
Three key changes at Pets at Home now place the business in the best position to deliver on an ambitious plan
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ProfilesMy Alternative CV: The Flower Farm’s Marcel van Wing on palm oil and family
‘I lived in Indonesia and saw with my own eyes the damage to the rainforest for palm oil’
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Analysis & FeaturesCan regenerative agriculture make business sense?
Fmcg giants are betting big on regenerative farming to boost sustainability and win over consumers. But the definition is vague. Will the concept hold up, or is it just fertile breeding ground for greenwashing?
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Comment & OpinionFmcg must urgently tackle its single-use plastic dependence
From shampoo bottles to food packaging, single-use plastic continues to be the main delivery system used by fmcg
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NewsSysco GB to offer sustainability training to all 8,000 colleagues
There are eight modules in the programme, including climate change, carbon footprinting, operational sustainability, healthy and sustainable diets, and food waste
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NewsRed Tractor under fire over ‘fait accompli’ environmental framework
The farm assurance scheme has secured the support of supermarkets and the BRC for the new module, but failed to consult farmers
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NewsBeer fear over climate change impact on global hop harvests
Rising global temperatures and extreme weather events are having a big impact on hop production
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Comment & OpinionWhy greenhushing is an insidious threat to progress
Greenhushing happens when fearful brands retreat to the safe confines of silence, says Jessi Baker, founder & CEO of Provenance
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Analysis & FeaturesCan growers adapt to climate change?
Climate change means UK growers are going to have to deal with hotter and more unreliable weather. How will it affect which crops are grown – and how?
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NewsPastificio Liguori rolls out traceability QR codes on pasta packs
Shoppers will be able to identify the geolocation of the wheat fields used, the date of harvesting and the mill in which the wheat was processed
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Comment & OpinionUnmasking the true cost of household cleaning products
A little-known and understood contributor to lung disease is also lurking in household cleaning products
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WhitepapersHow Lidl GB cracked open the Scope 3 emissions challenge
Find out, how Lidl GB, in collaboration with a Scottish egg producer, developed a valuable new product while delivering a significantly reduced carbon footprint. Download the whitepaper now.
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Comment & OpinionWhat sustainability really means for fmcg NPD
New products and formulations are increasingly under the spotlight as consumer focus on sustainability continues to build