The latest results of the Courtauld Commitment Phase 2 from WRAP, show significant progress by grocery sector signatories against its ambitious waste reduction and recycling targets for food and packaging.
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Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods manufacturers, has released a new set of challenges to the world’s innovation community to help the business deliver on its sustainable growth
Union Engineering’s latest installation plays a significant role in a Built-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contract between Coca-Cola and Air Liquide. The second of two deals also reflects a growing emphasis on sustainable
Food and agribusiness companies are discovering innovative ways to create value from the waste that they produce, shifting the perception of ‘waste as a cost’ to ‘waste as a revenue’,
France will ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food contact packaging from 1 January The news comes after the French senate adopted a law that bans the use
The global market for bioplastics is expected to grow fivefold by 2016, according to European Bioplastics Trade body European Bioplastics said in its annual report that the current volume figure
Corrugated and paper giant DS Smith has announced that it will save more from its acquisition of the recycled packaging business of SCA than previously though The firm issued a
Bryson Recycling will be the first firm to send its bales of used materials to the UK’s first beverage carton reprocessing plant. The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment
Carlsberg Group, the world’s fourth largest brewer, and its subsidiary Baltika Breweries, Russia’s largest beer company, are to invest up to 1 billion Rubles (around Eur25 million) in environmental projects
Packaging ‘upcycle’ business Terracycle is aiming to boost the recycling of coffee packaging after linking up with Kenco Both companies have launched the Coffee Packaging Brigade, designed to allow consumers
China’s potential plans to prohibit the import of unwashed post-consumer plastics will jeopardise the chance of the UK meeting new Government recycling targets, according to Pafa The trade body has
Paper maker Arctic Paper’s Mukedals mill has acquired 50% of Kalltorp Kraft. Kalltorp Kraft is a water energy company running two water power stations in western Sweden with a total
Unilever has been announced as the latest firm to sign up to fund metal packaging recycling campaign MetalMatters The consumer products giant will help fund the recycling programme over two
Recycling technology developer Enval has announced that its laminate recycling plant will be located at Alconbury, near Huntingdon In a statement, the firm said that it had secured premises on
Students from Buxton Community College have won prizes for a recycling competition organised by mineral water brand Buxton and plastics waste charity Recoup There were ten winners who designed posters
Paper maker Bolloré This Papers has launched, what it calls, a new eco label It said that its new label helps “clients better communicate their choice of responsible paper use”.
The global market for bioplastics is expected to grow fivefold by 2016, according to European Bioplastics Trade body European Bioplastics said in its annual report that the current volume figure
Bryson Recycling will be the first firm to send its bales of used materials to the UK’s first beverage carton reprocessing plant The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment
Data showing the carbon impact of treatment of municipal waste will be released this November, for the first time The figures will come out alongside local authority waste management data
Jonathon Porritt of Forum of the Future gives his views on plastics I love it when I end up in the middle of chunky debates where people hold starkly polarised
Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead has announced that he is increasing the amount of funding available to help councils in Scotland in order to increase the recycling rate Scotland has a
PET packaging company APPE has established a joint venture with Coca-Cola in France, expanding its PET recycling facility in Beaune The two companies are investing around €9m in the project
Responding to the DECC announcement that ROCs will remain available to new AD projects below 5 MW, Charlotte Morton, Chief
Tullibardine Distillery in Scotland is to become the first whisky distillery in the world to have its by-products converted into
Coca-Cola Hellenic, one of the world’s largest bottlers of products of The Coca-Cola Company, has been included in the 2012
Eden Springs, the leading workplace drinks provider, has offset its carbon emissions across half of its European markets. Since 2010,
Nestlé has topped a list of global companies in efforts to disclose and cut carbon emissions. The Carbon Disclosure Project,
Diageo has been recognised by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), as the best performing beverage company in the world for
Organic waste group TEG has secured funding to construct a £21m waste facility at East London’s Dagenham Dock. The facility
UK turkey farmer and supplier Bernard Matthews (BM) is set to install a biogas plant near its processing site in
WWEM 2012, the 5th in a series of highly successful environmental monitoring events, will return to the Telford International Centre
A report launched yesterday (26 July) by campaign group Waste Watch examined how economic factors are impacting on the UK’s
The European Commission has proposed new measures to regulate fishing for deep-sea species in the North-East Atlantic. Deep sea ecosystems
UK food and drink manufacturers signed up to the Federation House Commitment (FHC) have achieved a 14.4% reduction in water
In 2011, Royal FrieslandCampina took important steps worldwide to improve the sustainability of the business in the 26 countries where
Fulton Limited, a leading manufacturer of steam, hot water and thermal fluid boilers, is introducing a new, highly-efficient modular hot
The Coca-Cola Company has developed and tested at commercial scale a first-of-its-kind beverage process water recovery system to produce high-quality
Cutting energy is so crucially important to most food producers it’s no surprise Heinz is pleased the first steam generators
Novel solar thermal technology is being used to heat oil for making potato crisp Technology developer Rackam Solar, a spin-out
2011 saw a year of record breaking performance towards United Biscuits’ (UB) environmental sustainability goals, such as achieving zero waste
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK has signed an agreement with paper and packaging producer, Sonoco
Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, is establishing a SFr1 million (Eur0.83 million) Center
Diageo has further strengthened its sustainability credentials by topping the food and beverage sector in the FTSE4GOOD index 2012. The
Despite the failure to create a global, ambitious agreement moving towards further sustainable development at the Rio+20 UN Conference on
An orphanage, funded by Cargill, has been officially opened by Pierre Douhou MBA, Cote d’Ivoire’s Director of Cabinet for the
HACH LANGE, the leading global provider of water testing and monitoring equipment and reagents, has launched a completely new web
The UK Government delegation to Rio+20 this week will press for the creation of new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focused
Coca-Cola Hellenic has inaugurated advanced energy-efficient power generating capacity at its plant in Ukraine that will reduce CO2 emissions by
The Produce World Group has reduced the amount of waste it is sending to landfill by 29 per cent, and
Feeding cattle on grass throughout their lifecycle is the most environmentally sustainable way to rear beef, according to new research
Coca‑Cola Enterprises and ECO Plastics have officially opened their groundbreaking joint venture, Continuum Recycling, which is the world’s largest plastics
Food and drinks manufacturers are required to run environmental monitoring programmes to maintain safe production environments. These are scheduled campaigns
Nestle is joining a new research partnership between industry and academia that aims to improve the environmental performance of consumer
Ball Packaging Europe, Krones and Klimasan have been recognised for their performance in quality, service, value and corporate responsibility and
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