Day: 16 August 2021

Procter & Gamble Announces First Lenor Paper Bottle Pilot and Joins Paboco Community of Pioneer Brands

Stuart Mitchell

P&G unveils its first paper bottle for Lenor in partnership with paper bottle company Paboco, announcing a pilot for Western Europe in 2022. The trial rollout will form the basis of a test and learn strategy to scale up paper packaging and incorporate it more widely across P&G’s portfolio. P&G Fabric & Home Care with its popular brands including Ariel, Lenor, Tide, Downy, Fairy, and Cascade is fully committed to reducing plastics in its packaging. As part of its 2030 Ambition, P&G aims to reduce its use of virgin plastics…

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Royal Canadian Mead Launches Patio Pollinator

Stuart Mitchell

Royal Canadian Mead (“RCM”), a Toronto company reviving the world’s oldest and most sustainable alcoholic beverage, is marking its relaunch this month with Patio Pollinator, a campaign that integrates bar and restaurant patios into Toronto’s urban ecosystem. In partnership with Toronto Flower Market and Gunnar, the floral design practice of Jaime McCuaig, RCM has developed a series of eye-catching, pollinator-friendly floral installations, which are beautifying patios across the city. The installations utilize bee boxes, reimagining the simple wooden structures—conventionally used to house beehives—as architectural elements, with a diverse blend of pollinator-friendly plants blooming atop them.…

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WRAP’s food and drink industry agreement to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

With only a few months until COP26, the UK has taken a bold step forward in reducing the impact food has on the natural world with a number of ambitious changes to its ground-breaking Courtauld Commitment voluntary agreement. The Commitment is already helping the UK food and drink sector to deliver against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 to halve food waste. It will now also be central in achieving and monitoring progress towards Net Zero ambitions and convening action on water stewardship in at-risk food sourcing locations. Foremost…

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Over 1 Billion Tonnes More Food Being Wasted Than Previously Estimated, Contributing 10% of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Stuart Mitchell

WWF and Tesco publish Driven to Waste, a new report that quantifies the total amount of food lost on farms globally, revealing an estimated 2.5 billion tonnes of food goes uneaten around the world each year. That is an increase of approximately 1.2 billion tonnes on the established estimates of 1.3 billion tonnes wasted each year. These new estimates indicate that of all the food grown, approximately 40 per cent goes uneaten, which is higher than the previously estimated figure of 33%. Driven to Waste is the first quantification of…

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Asda moves to electric company car fleet

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has become the first British supermarket to move its whole company car fleet to electric vehicles. The supermarket will change its fleet of over 600 vehicles to electric over the next four years, saving over 2,411 tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of over six million miles driven by an average petrol run car. Asda made the switch after 85% of colleagues who opted for a company car as part of their benefits package chose an electric vehicle over the past year and means that all petrol and diesel…

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