Tag: Tesco

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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Tesco to go peat-free on UK-grown bedding plants and compost in major carbon-saving move

Stuart Mitchell

In April Tesco became the first UK retailer to go peat-free on its British-grown bedding plants, in order to significantly lower their carbon footprint.  From earlier this year the supermarket started selling only compost that is also completely peat-free.  Peat is still the most popular aid used by the horticulture industry to grow potting plants but when harvested, vast quantities of carbon are released into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.    The ground-breaking step has been made in partnership with one of the UK’s leading ornamental plant suppliers, Bridge Farm Horticulture, based in Spalding,…

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