Tag: Asda

BBC Children in Need and Asda launch Fuelling Potential campaign to ensure children don’t go hungry over the school holidays

Stuart Mitchell

BBC Children in Need and Asda have launched Fuelling Potential – a new campaign to ensure no child is held back by food insecurity. Over the next three years Asda & BBC Children in Need aim to change the lives of 100,000 children by helping to make sure they have access to nutritious meals while having fun at BBC Children in Need funded holiday sessions that help to boost their mental health and physical wellbeing. The campaign is part of Asda’s broader Better Starts campaign, which aims to improve outcomes…

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Asda replaces coloured milk bottle tops to recycle over 200 million pieces of plastic a year

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced that it will replace coloured caps with clear caps on all its own label fresh milk, including skimmed, semi-skimmed, whole, organic, and filtered milk. The change will mean that 268 tonnes of High-Density Polythene (rHDPE) can be recycled to make new milk bottles and is part of Asda’s plan to make more of its food packaging recyclable. As a result of this change 207 million plastic milk caps will now be recycled in this way each year. The switch to natural-coloured caps means that they can be…

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ABACO, ASDA, Tesco, McCain Foods, and NIAB launch digital application to address the challenges

Stuart Mitchell

ABACO Group, a European leading Agri-tech company, and NIAB, a crop science organisation, have partnered together with ASDA, Tesco, and McCain Foods to launch a digital application aimed at supporting Farmers and Growers to better manage the health and productivity of their soil and the assessment of soil quality across the UK. This innovative solution provides a database to record and analyse soil sample results and offers tangible advice to farmers on how to improve the quality of their soil. The partnership arrives in a challenging period for the agricultural…

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Asda signs up to the global LEAF Marque Environmental Assurance System, to help deliver its sustainable sourcing commitments

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has begun to roll out LEAF Marque certification across its UK fresh produce fruit and vegetable supply base to strengthen its environmental standards. The LEAF Marque environmental assurance system provides independent, third-party verification around core areas of sustainable farming practice including soil and water management, energy efficiency, waste management, carbon sequestration, energy use and enrichment of biodiversity. It offers growers a framework to help them monitor their performance, identify strengths and weaknesses and set targets for improvement across the whole farm. All UK-based Asda fresh produce growers will achieve…

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More than 11m households don’t earn enough to cover essential costs

Stuart Mitchell

Low income households continue to be disproportionately affected by the cost of living crisis, as the latest Asda Income Tracker shows that 40% of the UK’s 28m households* had negative discretionary income last month – meaning their take home pay doesn’t cover the cost of their bills. Despite wages going up by almost 3% compared to this time last year, households in the lowest-income quintile had a shortfall of £72 a week last month after paying for essentials such as accommodation, energy, clothing and food. They have seen their discretionary…

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