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Tesco toasts removal of one billion pieces of plastic from its shelves in 2020
Supermarket claims to have met its pledge to remove one billion pieces of plastic, working with suppliers to remove unnecessary and excessive packaging of products
'Forest Allies': Kingfisher and Rainforest Alliance team up for tropical forest conservation
Partnership will help home improvement company meet its aim of creating as much wood as it consumes by 2025
Chicken and cereal open up new front in war on plastic
Tesco announces it is removing plastic trays from its fresh chicken, as Aldi unveils fully recyclable cereal packaging
Tesco and Low Carbon to build three new solar farms in UK by 2021
New agreement is part of Tesco's commitment to use 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030, and is set to save 30,308 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year
Trial reveals UK households could save £858 a year by cutting food waste
Six-week food waste reduction programme for 52 UK households run by Tesco and Hubbub found families saved money and significantly slashed food waste once they embraced new food habits
Food and drink giants urge UK government to strengthen deforestation laws
Firms including Tesco, Nestle and Waitrose want UK government proposals expanded to encompass all deforestation, not just that defined as illegal
Tesco targets major plant-based meat sales growth in UK first
UK retailer raises the steaks with major plan to scale up vegan and vegetarian alternatives across its stores over the next five years
How the UK became a 'bright spot' in the battle to tackle the world's food waste mountain
Action is being coordinated by campaign group WRAP, whose Food Waste Reduction Roadmap has helped save around 180,000 tonnes of food - worth £300m - from becoming waste since it launched in 2018
Tesco, Heathrow and E.ON join growing calls for 2030 fossil fuel car sales ban
Tesco, Dixons Carphone, E.On, Heathrow, Lime and SSE latest to join 27-strong UK Electric Fleets Coalition partnership led by BT and The Climate Group
'Horrific': Iceland details full scale of plastic packaging sold in its stores
Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis
Tesco steps up rail investment plans
Rail Minister hails corporate backing for efforts to shift freight off the roads and onto the rails
McDonald's works to close the Loop on coffee cup waste
Consumers will able to request a reusable cup for a small deposit, which would then be redeemed when the cup is returned for cleaning and re-use
'No time for waste': Tesco and Hubbub team up for new food waste-busting trial
Over 50 households to track their food waste in a bid to work out which interventions deliver biggest waste savings
Invest in bus travel to drive green recovery, study urges
Public transport 'essential' to driving economic activity, study argues, as bus operator First Group pledges zero emission fleet by 2035
In the Loop: Radical zero-waste shopping scheme launches in UK
Tesco and Terracycle team up to launch new packaging re-use delivering model in the UK
Outgoing Tesco CEO Dave Lewis to join environmental charity WWF as chair
Lewis appointed chair of WWF UK's trustee board, as he prepares to step down from helm of UK supermarket chain later this year
What does it really mean to be a climate leader in the corporate sector?
Once the immediate coronavirus threat has passed, corporates must ramp up their climate efforts, argues WWF's Seán Mallon
'Urgent priority': UK must tackle supply chain deforestation, government warned
Global Resource Initiative (GRI) taskforce also says UK has 'unparalleled opportunities' to green its supply chains as it seeks new global trade deals
Caught out? UK supermarkets accused of 'turning blind eye' to unsustainable fish feed
Investigation indicates UK shoppers may be indirectly and unknowingly consuming wild fish in their farmed fish products
'2020 is a turning point': Top corporates urge Boris Johnson to accelerate climate action
As the UK readies for the upcoming COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November, the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change urge government to deliver ambitious net zero strategy
Tesco banishes shrink wrap for multipack cans
Heinz is exploring ways to roll out the initiative across other retailers, a move that could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 3300 tonnes a year.
Tesco launches 'sustainable basket metric' to track environmental impact of food
In partnership with WWF supermarket will measure environmental impact of popular foods in a pilot starting next year
Tesco to kick-start anti-deforestation project in Brazil's Cerrado
Supermarket is hoping to set up support scheme for soy farmers in the Cerrado region of Brazil in a bid to protect native vegetation
Tesco and Amazon lead latest green energy procurement push
Major corporate renewables deals to drive construction of large scale new solar and wind projects in Europe and US
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