THE NOMINEES for the 2013 Footprint Awards – the industry’s only awards scheme encouraging sustainability and responsible business throughout the supply chain – have today been announced following a record number of entries. “Record number of entries demonstrate sustainability is at the [...]
What could be more eco than tableware which falls straight from the tree? Celebrate your love for the planet this Valentine’s Day with heart-shaped eco plates made from palm leaves.These heart-shaped 6-inch plates are one of the 16 shapes in Vegware’s new range of palm leaf tableware. [...]
SCOTTISH COMPANIES have come out in force to back the new Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement to cut waste. Recent signatories include The Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh; Edinburgh International Conference Centre; compostable food packaging manufacturers Vegware; and Scottish Water Horizons. Biffa has also become the first [...]
VEGWARE HAS launched www.PrintMyCup.co.uk a new website showcasing the eco packaging manufacturers low MOQ cup printing services. Vegwares innovative compostable insulated hot cup won Best New Product in the Climate Week Awards. The firm offers custom printing on just 1,000 cups, ready in 3 weeks or less. Unusual design options include embossing, QR codes, [...]
THE BRITISH food industry must boost innovation in order to improve productivity, but sustainably. This was one of the key points made by Lord Carter of Coles in his talk Innovation in Agriculture and Food. He was speaking at the first ever Thought Leaders and Innovators Conference and Partnering Event, organised by Footprint Forum in [...]
LANDFILL TAX is rising from £56 to £64 per tonne on 1 April 2012. Given that foodservice businesses are thought to be landfilling 1.5 million tonnes a year, this could cost the sector up to £12m extra in landfill costs. The rise in [...]
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 [...]
The Footprint Forum went to Fruit Towers to talk about Agriculture Abroad and the positive contribution that Foodservice can make to the global food system and sustainability. For the written report of what went on at the Forum click here
