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Tesco teams up with WWF to halve environmental impact of food shop

Madeleine Cuff
Madeleine Cuff
clock 16 November 2018 •
Tesco CEO Dave Lewis and WWF UK CEO Tanya Steele | Credit: Tesco
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Tesco CEO Dave Lewis and WWF UK CEO Tanya Steele | Credit: Tesco

Long-term partnership aims to respond to customer demand and slash the environmental impact of average Brit's shopping basket

Supermarket giant Tesco has today announced a major new partnership with green NGO WWF to cut the environmental impact of some of the nation's favourite foods. Tesco said it wants to cut the environmental...

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