Tag: Nestle

Nestlé invests £7m in pioneering recycling facility

Stuart Mitchell

A breakthrough plastic recycling plant is set to open in Durham with a significant investment from Nestlé UK and Ireland.  Impact Recycling will open the new facility to process hard-to-recycle flexible plastics, typically used in food packaging, into pellets which can be used to make new flexible products such as postbags and refuse bags.  Nestlé has agreed to provide Impact Recycling with a £7 million loan to get its pioneering process off the ground and as well as a grant from Innovate UK, the site is set to be operational…

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Nestlé, Cargill and CCm Technologies launch collaborative pilot to turn cocoa shells into low carbon fertiliser

Stuart Mitchell

Nestlé UK & Ireland and Cargill launch their latest regenerative agriculture initiative, a UK supply chain trial, to assess whether cocoa shells from a confectionery site in York could be used to create a low carbon fertiliser.   This two-year trial is designed to evaluate the fertiliser’s performance on crop production, soil health and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction. If successful, up to 7,000 tonnes of low carbon fertiliser could be produced and offered to farmers in Nestlé’s UK wheat supply chain. This amount of fertiliser equates to around 25%…

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‘Enjoy Breakfast your Way’ with Nestle and FareShare

Stuart Mitchell

This autumn, Nestlé are donating thousands of jars of Nescafé Coffee and boxes of Shreddies to FareShare to help families across the UK. Alongside the surplus food Nestlé donates on a regular basis, this generous provision will ensure that more children and families can start their day with a nutritious breakfast. Nestlé are celebrating their long-standing partnership with FareShare by launching an eight week ‘Enjoy Breakfast your Way’ campaign, exclusively in Tesco stores from Wednesday 4 October. At FareShare we believe that no one should go hungry. But across the…

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Nestlé partners with Africa Food Prize to strengthen food security and climate change resilience

Stuart Mitchell

Nestlé has announced that it is partnering with the Africa Food Prize to help accelerate the transformation of food systems in Africa, as a way of strengthening the continent’s food security and building greater climate change resilience. The Africa Food Prize awards USD 100,000 to individuals and institutions that are pioneering agricultural and food systems transformation in Africa. The Prize puts a spotlight on uniquely impactful agri-food initiatives and technological innovations that can be replicated across the continent to increase food security, spur economic growth and development, and eliminate hunger…

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Nestlé Confectionery announces major packaging innovations for Quality Street and KitKat

Stuart Mitchell

Nestlé Confectionery has announced industry-leading packaging innovations for two of its best-loved brands – Quality Street and KitKat. In a category first, Quality Street will move to recyclable paper packaging for its twist-wrapped sweets. By replacing the double layer of foil and cellulose with a paper wrap, Quality Street will remove more than two billion pieces of packaging material from the brand’s supply chain. At the same time, KitKat will introduce wrappers made with 80% recycled plastic*. These wrappers can be recycled at more than 5,000 supermarkets across the UK…

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