Become a BusinessGreen member

'Waste to wealth': Nestle, Burger King, and Sainsbury's among big brands promising to revolutionise waste management

22 November 2018 • 2 min read

Host of firms commit to fresh resource efficiency pledge at Prince of Wales summit

Leading corporates such as Burger King, Nestle, and Sainsbury's have today promised to boost resource productivity and slash avoidable waste at a summit opened by HRH the Prince of Wales. Together the...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Degrowth is the radical post-Brexit future the UK needs

Report: Europe must end fossil fuel car sales by 2035

Author spotlight

Madeleine Cuff

View profile

More from Madeleine Cuff

From SEMTA to Enginuity: Engineering skills body rebrands

Inside Enginuity's plan to build a workforce for the future

More on Efficiency

Efficiency

Tory claims dropping the Future Homes Standard will save buyers £50,000 simply don't add up

Andrew Warren explains how the Shadow Chancellor's claim weakening building standards will result in more affordable homes is based on some deeply questionable assumptions and ignores the cost savings more efficient homes deliver

Andrew Warren

06 October 2026 • 6 min read

Efficiency

Study: Waste heat network rollout could cut social and affordable housing energy bills by £142m

Warming 70,000 new social and affordable homes with waste heat and large air source heat pumps would prove far cheaper than electric panel heating, study finds