The food and drink giant’s latest innovations show that speed of innovation and sustainability are sometimes hard to align. Nick Hughes reports. As a food and drink supplier, how do you balance the need to drive long-term profitable growth with keeping sustainability front and centre of your business model? This potential paradox kept running through…

New schemes to reduce packaging and encourage reuse rely on ‘extended consumer responsibility’. But will they work? David Burrows reports. WHAT’S HAPPENED? Morrisons has started selling milk in glass bottles again. “We want to help our customers live their lives with less plastic,” said the supermarket’s packaging manager Natasha Cook, and “reusing glass milk bottles…

Shifting people’s diets takes time, which is why the government’s climate change advisors have called for action now. David Burrows reports. The Climate Change Committee recently published two reports and 32 pages of recommendations to the government on progress made towards reducing emissions to net-zero and adapting to climate change. They make for sobering (but…

A new report suggests an undercurrent of racial bias runs through hospitality organisations leaving much work to do. Nick Hughes reports. A new survey that places in sharp focus the racism and inequality that still exists within the hospitality sector should make for uncomfortable reading for industry leaders. The Inside Hospitality survey, by not-for-profit Be…