Tag: Asda

Asda partners with The Good Roll to bring sustainable toilet roll to UK retail market

Stuart Mitchell

Sustainable household paper brand, The Good Roll, is launching in the UK for the very first time in an exclusive deal with supermarket giant, Asda. The Amsterdam-based business produces paper products, including toilet roll and kitchen towel, which are good for the planet and give back to communities across West Africa. Hailed as 100% tree friendly, The Good Roll products are made from 100% bamboo and not only contain twice as many sheets as a standard roll, but they are free from chemicals like chlorine, colourants, and fragrances. In addition,…

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Asda carparks provide alternative location for vital breast screening services in England

Stuart Mitchell

A cross-sector collaboration with Breast Cancer Now, NHS England and Asda, will provide new, alternative locations for the mobile breast screening units, to be used by the NHS Breast Screening programme, run by NHS England. Asda has made their car parks, in specific regions, available, in a bid to increase convenience and visibility of vital breast screening services in England. The announcement was made as part of an Asda Parliamentary event, hosted by Matt Vickers MP, which focussed on supporting community organisations, utilising store space and fundraising for national charities.…

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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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