increases in waste, according to WRAP. The focus now is to optimise packaging to reduce food waste and improve recyclability to help consumers and local authorities, while ensuring no increase in the carbon impact against a back drop of increasing sales volume. The target will also help achieve the government’s ambitious new packaging recycling targets for 2013 to 2017. To date, 2.3 million tonnes of waste has successfully been prevented by the Courtauld signatories and consumers during the fi rst two phases of the Commitment. The value of waste prevented is around £3.5bn. The fi nal results of Courtauld Commitment 2 will be announced later this year.
Despite some criticism that the targets
didn’t go far enough, Courtauld 3 has generally been well received and has even gained support from resource minister Lord de Mauley who said: “Together we are cutting down on waste to deliver £1.6 billion of savings, which is good for consumers, the food and drink sector and local authorities. It’s crucial that we keep reducing waste so we can continue to see signifi cant benefi ts for businesses and the environment.” Scottish environment secretary Richard Lochhead and Wales’ minister for natural resources and food, Alun Davies, have also expressed their support.
home. This will include delivering targeted food waste reduction initiatives, for example with the Love Food Hate Waste campaign, clearer product labelling and improved packaging design, while also tackling their own waste in the supply chain.
Packaging The fi rst two phases of Courtauld focused on packaging and WRAP said “signifi cant achievements” have been made on optimising grocery packaging under this. Adding up achievements under both agreements to date indicates that around one million tonnes less packaging has been used. There are now limited opportunities for more substantial reductions in packaging without risking
Progress Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s, one of founding members of the voluntary scheme, said it was delighted to continue its support and noted the progress which had been made so far. Stuart Lendrum, head of sustainable and ethical sourcing for the retailer, said: “Addressing the issue of food waste is very important to us and our customers and is why none of our food waste goes to landfi ll. We are more focused than ever on providing ways for our customers to make their food go further and waste less. For example, through our recent ‘Make Your Roast Go Further’ campaign we helped customers create two additional family meals from every Sunday roasting joint. We have also changed our freezing labels to say ‘freeze up until use by date’ instead of ‘freeze on day of purchase’, and we are changing our date-code labels to either ‘best before’ or ‘use by’ because we know customers are confused by ‘display until’ dates.”
RETAILERS Aldi
Asda Stores Ltd Boots UK
Marks & Spencer
Musgrave Group
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Tesco Stores
The Co-operative Food Waitrose
Wm Morrison Supermarkets BRANDS AND SUPPLIERS
ABF UK Grocery Division AB InBev UK Accolade Wines AG Barr apetito
Arla Foods UK Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd Burton’s Biscuits Cafédirect Carlsberg UK
Coca-Cola Enterprises Cott Beverages CyT (UK)
Dairy Crest Limited Danone Waters (UK & Ireland) Dawnfresh Seafood Greencore Group (UK) Heineken UK
Highland Spring Group HJ Heinz Foods UK Limited innocent drinks
Kingsland Wines and Spirits Mars (UK) Moy Park Ltd
Nestlé UK & Ireland Nestlé Waters UK Nichols plc P&G UK & Ireland Premier Foods S A Brain and Co
Treasury Wine Estates EMEA Typhoo Tea Limited Unilever UK Warburtons Weetabix
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