Tag: Tesco

Perfectly Imperfect initiative saves 50m packs of fruit and veg at risk of going to waste

Stuart Mitchell

A food waste saving initiative, launched by Tesco five years ago, has saved 50 million packs of fruit and vegetables. The scheme, called Perfectly Imperfect, was launched by the supermarket as a way of offering customers wonky food at risk of becoming waste. The wonky produce in the range is as fresh and tasty as the regular fruit and vegetables sold by Tesco but is just a little misshapen. Since launch, customers have purchased 50 million packs of the Perfectly Imperfect range, saving 44,000 tonnes of fruit and veg at…

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Tesco and Faerch launch PET ‘tray to tray’ recycling initiative

Stuart Mitchell

In an industry first, Tesco and Faerch have developed a closed loop recycling solution that ensures the secondary plastic packaging used to transport and hold products on Tesco shelves is retained by the food packaging industry and recycled back into new food contact primary packaging. Until recently, PET shelf ready packaging – widely used by UK supermarkets to transport products – was used once and downcycled into non-food applications. Now, through a new ‘tray to tray’ initiative, Tesco’s secondary PET will be collected by Faerch and through their advanced recycling…

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Tesco launch Quiet Hour permanently in stores to support customers

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco have announced that they are launching Quiet Hour in their stores with a post on their website stating: One in five people, or 20% of the population in the UK have a disability. Tesco is a place where Everyone’s Welcome, but we understand that our stores –  with the loud noises, bright lights or strong smells, and volume of people – can be stressful for some of our customers. People can feel, see and experience the world differently, and for our customers with Autism, the shopping experience may sometimes…

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Tesco strengthens environmental standards for its growers with adoption of global LEAF Marque Standard

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has announced a strengthening in the environmental standards required by its 14,000 fresh produce growers, by implementing the LEAF Marque environmental assurance scheme across its entire global produce supply chain. The retailer will ensure all UK growers are certified by the end of 2022 and will begin the process of certifying the rest of its global grower base from 2023, with the aim of completing the transformation by 2025. The scale of the roll-out is unprecedented among LEAF’s existing supply base. The LEAF Marque, run by global farming organisation…

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OLIO Food Waste Heroes have saved five million meals by working with Tesco

Stuart Mitchell

Thousands of food waste heroes have stopped more than five million meals from going to waste in the past year, thanks to a ground-breaking partnership between Tesco and OLIO.  In August last year Tesco became the first supermarket to partner with the food sharing app to provide unsold surplus food fit for consumption to people in the community and prevent it from going to waste.  In the first full year of the partnership OLIO’s network of more than 3,700 Food Waste Heroes has helped to save 5.6m meals from Tesco…

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