The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has launched its Carbon Solutions Hub (the Hub), a new knowledge repository, to help businesses on their pathways to net zero.
The Compleat Food Group (TCFG) is making a major investment in its ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance factors) capabilities with the appointment of David Moore as its first group head of ESG.
Morrisons is to offer 400 of its own-label suppliers access to a new industry-leading software platform that can accurately measure, track and forecast their operational carbon emissions.
There’s less than a month left to sign up for the next free, online Food Manufacture webinar, Lean & Green: Save Costs and the Planet, on 19 January 2022.
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) is to support the expansion of a local solar farm near its Wakefield soft drinks factory as part of a wider €250m investment in renewable energy.
The food and drink industry’s focus on environmental and sustainability issues was a welcome surprise at this year’s Business Leaders’ Forum, organised by Food Manufacture, according to the founder of Alara Wholefoods.
Senior industry personnel have less than a week to make their voice heard and outline their business’ expectations, aims and activities in 2020 in Food Manufacture’s exclusive State of the Nation survey.
A lack of support at Government level has provided food manufacturers with “a huge opportunity” to boost their environmental footprints after recent data revealed dwindling support for certain brands as a result of their policies on the issues.
Food manufacturers must significantly improve their efforts to limit their carbon footprint despite recent success to allay climate change fears, according to environmental groups.
The Government’s promise to cut UK greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 must now be fleshed out, with concrete plans set forth on how to achieve that goal.
Many dairy processors could make big savings by moving away from traditional methods for cleaning their pipework and choosing an environmentally friendly system called ‘ice pigging’, a patented technology offered by Aqualogy Environment.
Packaging coatings based on environmentally damaging petrochemicals could become a thing of the past, if a new plant-based food packaging coating takes off.
Packaging industry champions have defended its record on self-promotion and the environment in the face of criticism from experts in branding and consumer issues. The high-profile legal threat to Sainsbury’s ‘overpackaged’ joint of meat set the scene...
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has announced the winners of its Community Partnership Awards. Food minister Jim Paice presented 23 awards at a lunch at the Institute of Directors in London..
A study commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), from Loughborough University has confirmed what many have long suspected: that so-called 'oxodegradable' plastics are neither strictly speaking 'degradable'...
Tetley Tea is having to cut supply chain costs as a result of fierce competition from low-cost production in Eastern Europe, according to operations...
Kerrs Bakery is Scotland's main producer of caramel shortcakes. From modest beginnings this company has steadily expanded and, to cope with increased...
New research suggests that three-quarters of consumers believe more packaging should be recyclable. However, less than a quarter regularly check the...
Asda has defended its invitation to consumers to deposit excess packaging outside its York and Dewsbury stores, in Yorkshire, to shame suppliers into...
