Food waste and anaerobic digestion
We now send food waste to anaerobic digestion (AD) plants from 114 Waitrose shops and five John Lewis shops.
We were the first UK food retailer to use AD plants for our own operational food waste to generate electricity, heat and a high-nutrient fertiliser.
We are working with FareShare, a registered charity, and Company Shop to redistribute food within our supply chain that we cannot sell.
Waitrose endeavours to minimise food waste by ordering accurately and giving the customer the maximum shelf-life and best quality. We are also exploring how to enable local shop food donation more widely.
Encouraging customers to recycle
The Partnership is keen to help customers to recycle more. One way we do this is to label the materials used in our own-brand packaging where possible. We have worked with Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), the British Retail Consortium and other retailers to agree standardised recycling labelling for packaging.
We have supported the on-pack recycling label scheme further by adding a ‘recycle in store, with your carrier bags’ label to a small selection of our plastic packaging. So far, this includes the new Waitrose own-brand potato bags, and we will extend this to our Waitrose own-brand kitchen towel wrap, bathroom tissue wrap and bags for cereals.
We further support customers by offering recycling facilities where space or local collection arrangements allow. We provide recycling points for plastic carrier bags in our Waitrose shops and both our John Lewis and Waitrose shops offer battery recycling facilities. John Lewis also run a bed recycling scheme – taking away customers’ old beds on delivering a new one – and support the recycling of electrical and electronic appliances by helping to fund the Distributor Take Back Scheme under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment regulations.
“ Waitrose is making strong progress towards our target to apply on-pack recyclability labelling to own-brand products by year-end 2012. We already have around 6,000 lines that now include the label.”
Karen Graley, Packaging AND Reprographics
Manager, Waitrose
(Photo of Karen Graley)
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