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Tesco removes two billion pieces of plastic from its business

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has now removed more than two billion pieces of plastic from its UK business since the launch of its 4Rs – Remove, Reduce, Re-use, Recycle – packaging strategy in 2019. In the last 12 months alone, 500 million pieces of unnecessary plastic have been identified and removed. The most recent annual savings include: More than 30 million plastic yoghurt lids removed Over 29 million pieces of plastic removed from limescale tablets packaging Nearly 24 million plastic windows removed from doughnut packaging Nearly 9 million pieces removed from nappy packaging…

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FareShare and Tesco win big at Third Sector Charity Business Awards

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare and Tesco were celebrated at this year’s Third Sector Charity Business Awards with the top prize in the Long Term Partnership category.  The two organisations have worked together since 2012 to help alleviate poverty in the UK by ensuring surplus food within the Tesco supply chain is used to feed people and doesn’t end up as waste.   Over the last ten years, Tesco has provided food to FareShare via its distribution centres and back of store surplus, as well as funding, support from its suppliers, enabled in store and…

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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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Tesco changes yogurt labelling to cut down on food waste

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco is to switch from ‘Use By’ to ‘Best Before’ dates on more than 30 yogurt lines in its latest move to help its customers reduce their food waste. The move – which is being made to help prevent perfectly edible food from being thrown away – will enable customers to use their own judgement on whether to eat a product. Latest stats taken from a survey by food waste prevention group WRAP revealed that: UK consumers waste 54,000 tonnes of yogurt a year which is equal to nine per…

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Tesco launches collaborative ready meal tray-to-tray initiative with Faerch Group

Stuart Mitchell

In an industry first, Tesco has begun recycling used plastic food trays back into packaging – creating a fully circular packaging solution for its range of core chilled ready meals. The change is in collaboration with leading packaging manufacturer Faerch and will see customer-recovered PET trays – collected via European kerbside waste – recycled and converted back into food grade plastic trays. Tesco’s ready meal trays already contain up to 75% recycled content, predominantly from cleaner and easier to recycle bottle flake plastic. Through the new Tray 2 Tray by…

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