Tag: Morrisons

Morrisons to co-own world leading soft plastic recycling site in UK

Stuart Mitchell

Morrisons will become the first supermarket to own its own recycling operations through the acquisition of a significant stake in a new recycling site in Fife. The site will reprocess ‘hard-to-recycle’ soft plastics. Uniquely within the industry, Morrisons already owns 18 of its own food making sites.  Morrisons has also committed that by 2025, it will recycle and reuse the equivalent amount of plastic it puts on to the market within its own recycling facilities, to develop greater recycling in the UK. It has already announced it will reduce its…

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Morrisons Launches Move Towards UK’s First ‘Zero Waste’ Stores

Stuart Mitchell

Morrisons is launching a move towards the UK’s first six ‘zero waste’ stores in Edinburgh which will have the ability to operate with zero waste by 2025 – either from the store itself or from the customers who shop at that store. If successful, the ‘zero waste’ store format will be rolled out to all of Morrisons 498 stores across the UK over the next year. In the longer term, Morrisons aims to recycle all of the waste it creates across all its stores by 2025. The trial will incorporate…

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Pink Lady® supports The British Bee Charity with Morrisons on-pack promotion

Stuart Mitchell

Pink Lady® apples has partnered with The British Bee Charity to develop a new on-pack promotion called Bee Pink designed to inspire and delight consumers whilst helping to protect British bees. The UK’s leading apple brand will be offering Morrisons shoppers the chance to win one of ten bespoke bee bundles and 150 runner-up prizes. The main prize bundle will include a Sophie Allport china bee mug, beeswax candle, beeswax lip balm (made with beeswax from The British Bee Charity), wildflower seed bath bomb and honey from The British Bee…

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Morrisons leads green farming revolution with pledge to have first net zero British farms by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

Morrisons has pledged to be the first supermarket to be completely supplied by ‘net zero’ carbon British farms by 2030, five years ahead of the market. Over the next nine years, Morrisons will work with its 3,000 farmers and growers to produce affordable net zero carbon meat, fruit and vegetables. Morrisons expects that the first products to reach net zero carbon status will be eggs as early as 2022, followed by lamb, fruit, vegetables, pork and beef in the years to follow. UK agriculture currently accounts for 10 per cent…

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Morrisons asks food and drink brands to help fight war on plastic

Stuart Mitchell

Morrisons has asked its branded suppliers to help fight the war on plastic, as part of its commitment to reduce the amount of the material in its stores and supply chain operations. The supermarket made the appeal at its annual supplier conference, to which 1,600 suppliers were invited. Morrisons is asking its branded suppliers to reduce plastic in both product packaging and on the shelf display packaging, as well as in the materials in which these products are transported to stores. It is hoped that this will remove thousands of…

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