Next Green Thing
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Three disruptors to keep an eye on in 2018
We look at the start-ups with radical solutions for the big environmental challenges ahead. By Nick Hughes. Here at Footprint, we talk a lot about the environmental challenges facing the food industry. But with every challenge comes an opportunity for… Read More
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Give peas a chance
The Food Foundation’s new campaign could finally be the spur to get Britain eating more veg, writes Nick Hughes. It’s not often that the entire food sector unites around a single ambition. So hats off to the Food Foundation, whose… Read More
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What’s in Gove’s plastic bag of tricks?
The new environment secretary’s praise for the carrier bag tax suggests that a previously regulation-shy government could get tough on waste. By David Burrows. What a difference 5p makes. New DEFRA figures show that seven of the UK’s largest food… Read More
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Does the Impossible Burger live up to the hype?
Plant-based proteins are the dish of the day but the big question is whether they can win over meat-lovers. Niamh Michail reports from Las Vegas. Each year, research and development scientists and food formulators from the world’s biggest ingredient companies… Read More
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The robots are coming
Machines are replacing people on farms, food factories and McDonald’s restaurants. But fears that they will make humans redundant are overblown, writes Nick Hughes. When self-service kiosks began rolling out to McDonald’s outlets in 2015, staff could have been forgiven… Read More
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Black and white issue
Farmers have launched a new brand of free-range milk with a distinctive black top. Is it really the next green thing? Free-range milk? All milk is free range, isn’t it? No. More and more cows are being kept inside for… Read More
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Labels v taxes: which way to cut carbon?
Politicians need to encourage a shift to sustainable diets in the fight against climate change. The big question is how. What does a kilo of greenhouse gases buy you in the supermarket? Researchers at Lancaster University and RMIT in Melbourne,… Read More
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Spider-Man’s power and sticking up for foodservice.
IGD has forecast that the food-to-go market is set to rocket in the next five years. Sales will hit £21.7 billion by 2021, compared with a meagre £16.1 billion this year. There will be more options at supermarkets and garage… Read More
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Sausages with a side order of stationery
Delivering post with the potatoes and backhauling waste to maximise the final mile. It’s logistics in a logical world. Amy Fetzer reports. First it is the food order, another doorbell signals some stationery, whilst the next interruption is for empties.… Read More
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Less meat, more beet
Vegetarians might be turned off by plant-based burgers that sizzle and bleed, but it’s just the start of innovation that will place meat-free front and centre, says Emily Byrd. Increasing demand for healthy, sustainable foods coupled with innovations in food… Read More