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Grocery waste sent packing

by Helen Dunne on 10/03/2010 15:33:00 in CorpComms Online | share me: del.icio.us | digg | reddit | Tweet

Carbon impact of grocery packaging to be cut by ten per cent

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Helen Dunne

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Grocery waste sent packing

Grocery manufacturers and retailers have agreed to make significant cuts to food and packaging waste in a new initiative that will save £1 billion and cut carbon emissions by three million tonnes.

One fifth of household waste is packaging and more than half of this comes from groceries. The second phase of the Courtauld Commitment, which runs from next month to December 2012, will see a ten per cent reduction in the carbon impact of grocery packaging, by reducing weight, increasing recycling rates and increasing the recycled content.

The signatories, who include all major supermarket groups, will also commit to helping consumers reduce the amount of food that they waste by four per cent, saving more than one million tonnes of carbon emissions, and cut food and packaging waste through the supply chain, saving 700,000 tonnes of carbon emissions.

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