IT MIGHT not be quite as exciting as a card on Valentines Day, but a new initiative to matchmake UK businesses with their ideal food waste partners is being launched this Spring. The Food Waste Network (FWN) has been created by Vegware, a firm which makes compostable packaging. The free service will enable those in [...]
IT’S BEEN almost 10 years since the UK Government ran a public debate on GM food. With issues over food security, drought and a booming population intensifying, is the foodservice sector one of those asking for the technology to be given a second chance? David Burrows reports. Environmentalists are beginning to change their minds [...]
In 2010 Marriott International introduced a global sustainable seafood programme Future Fish, with the aim of selecting and serving seafood available from sustainable sources. The programme was launched to provide information and guidance on the responsible procurement of seafood in the hotels. In the UK, Marriott has a ten year relationship with [...]
A lovely film and well worth watching
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is dramatically changing the face of how hospitals deal with their food waste. The Waste-2-Water system has been successfully implemented to provide the hospital with a wide spectrum of significant cost and carbon emission reductions. The Waste-2-Water system is simplistic in nature and the NHS Stockport team are seeing minimal, [...]
Does this Video scare you? Or is it just scare mongering? Either way a good reminder of what GM is.
GREENVALE AP, one of the UKs leading suppliers of fresh potatoes is one of only 12 companies selected from across the UK and nominated for the European Business Awards for the Environment Following Footprint’s RSA accreditation the entrants to the Footprint Awards 2011 can enjoy pan-European exposure. Winners and runners up of [...]
Environmental issues in foodservice were top of the agenda at the Sustainability Matters seminar hosted by Creed Foodservice. Our seminar was chaired by Christophe Stourton, Communications Director for national environmental forum Foodservice Footprint and held at Gloucester Rugby Club. A top-notch panel of speakers shared thoughts on topics such as responsible food sourcing, energy [...]
SOMETIMES the scale of our sustainability challenges take you by surprise. This report was written by Nicholas Cox from Earthcare Products. It begins with some surprising stats: India’s retail and logistics industry comprises of over 14 million outlets employing about 40 million people. That’s a lot of fridges in very ambient conditions. It goes [...]
Supplier Management in the Low-Carbon Economy, is CDPs fourth annual global study of the preparedness of company supply chains for climate change impacts “Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has been collecting data on corporate greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions for almost a decade. “In 2011, CDP conducted its fourth annual information request for member companies and their suppliers, [...]
