Food ingredient suppliers that don’t have concrete examples of carbon disclosure projects won’t get through the door of major food and drink manufacturers in three to five years’ time.
If doing your bit for the planet used to be a good way of earning a few brownie points, it is now increasingly becoming a condition of doing business with the nation’s biggest food retailers.
Just 15% of UK food manufacturers plan to even consider implementing carbon footprint labelling on products this year, according to the results of Food Manufacture's annual reader survey.
Food Manufacture’s annual state of the nation reader survey is run every May and is intended to serve as a barometer of confidence levels in the industry.
Consumer products giants including Tesco and Unilever have pledged to build a central repository of lifecycle analysis data to help firms across the sector calculate carbon footprints more cheaply and easily.
