Green10 is the new responsible sourcing initiative developed by procurement specialist Acquire Services to help foodservice businesses develop and monitor their responsible sourcing goals. Many foodservice providers have struggled with the responsible buying/green agenda for a while now, but clients and [...]
Which would you choose: a voluntary initiative with you all working together to achieve change; or tighter regulation that forces change? Its a tough call. This Government has certainly nailed its (two) colours to the voluntary mast. And the Responsibility Deal is a case a point. The RD has been established to tap into [...]
However innovative disposables manufacturers are in producing bio-degradable and recyclable solutions for packaging, they cannot control whether the consumer uses the appropriate waste stream if, indeed, said waste stream exists. John Young, Foodservice Sales & Marketing Director of food packaging and disposables giant Huhtamaki, talks to Kathy Bowry about the problems faced. There seems to [...]
An expert panel assembled for the third Footprint Forum at Pret A Manager’s London headquarter to discuss the environmental impact of packaging in the foodservice supply chain and some of the innovations and initiatives being implemented to counter this. Delegates, including operators, suppliers and distributors, heard panellists acknowledge that whilst cutting down on packaging, food [...]
Brakes, one of the UKs leading foodservice suppliers, is using a wide variety of solutions to minimise the impact of the business on the environment through increased efficiency and green business practices. Energy consumption: In 2008 Brakes reduced energy consumption through a combination of operational changes, internal awareness campaigns around energy efficiency and training [...]
A Major Vision
By Nick Fenwicke-Clennell on October 3, 2008
Published in: Comment and tagged energy, John Major, natural resources, Nick Fenwicke-Clennell, oil, packaging, Sustainability, sustainable planet.
A global food crisis could mean a future in which ‘local’ is focal, says Nick Fenwicke-Clennell “Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools [...]