Food & Drink

Sustainable

What we choose to eat and drink have a direct impact to producers, wildlife, our ecosystem and the climate. Learn more about how you can achieve a healthy, balanced diet whilst reducing your carbon footprint with our expertly curated content and resources.

We must eat and drink to sustain our own lives but the evidence shows that our current eating and drinking habits are often at the expense of the lives of plants, animals and some of the poorest workers in the world. The industry is enormous and at times the myriad of issues can seem overwhelming – from plastic packaging to palm oil to pesticides, let alone the carbon miles of importing food grown out-of-season.

Despite businesses and individuals being aware of many of the issues for the past two decades, reforming habits has often been seen as the preserve of the left-leaning, middle classes. However the past two years has seen some encouraging movement such as a focus on food packaging by the UK government to the dramatic increase in popularity of eating more plant based diets.

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Write to your MP - Taking The Biscuit

Soil Association

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Waitrose rolls out soft plastic recycling scheme in stores

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Organic on a budget: Feeding a family on £44

Wicked Leeks

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Co-op seeks sustainable agriculture innovations for grant funding

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Urgent need for trade policy that protects both people and nature

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Co-op scales back best-before dates as Sainsbury’s launches surplus fruit and veg boxes

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Delivering door-to-door to help fight food waste

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FOOD & DRINK

Understand The Issues

Write to your MP - Taking The Biscuit

Waitrose rolls out soft plastic recycling scheme in stores

Organic on a budget: Feeding a family on £44

Co-op seeks sustainable agriculture innovations for grant funding

Urgent need for trade policy that protects both people and nature

Co-op scales back best-before dates as Sainsbury’s launches surplus fruit and veg boxes

Delivering door-to-door to help fight food waste

CMA to scrutinise ‘green’ claims in sales of household essentials

In numbers: What is the environmental impact of Christmas celebrations?

Mars Bar, Snickers and Milky Way transition to recyclable paper-based wrappers in Australia

HowGood launches platform for food companies to track scope 3 emissions

British supermarkets reaffirm 2030 environmental pledge and vow supplier focus after supply chain emissions increase

McDonald’s ditches plastic cutlery in UK and Ireland as packaging overhaul continues

Soil Association calls on new Prime Minister to get food right to build a better future

TerraCycle CEO: Cost-of-living crisis presents new challenges for UK’s recycling and reuse movements

SWAPPING 20% OF BEEF FOR MICROBIAL PROTEIN COULD HALF DEFORESTATION

'BLUEWASHING' SEAFOOD WON'T MAKE THE WORLD MORE GREEN

Regenerative farming shift could reduce UK climate emissions, say experts

DOES REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE HAVE A RACE PROBLEM?

Statement on Supreme Court Decision for Nestlé v. Doe - Child Labour

FEARS GROW OVER LOW-STANDARD TRADE DEAL WITH AUSTRALIA; LETTER IN THE TIMES

NANDO'S ON TRACK TO REACH CARBON NEUTRALITY THIS YEAR

People Wasting Almost 1bn tonnes of Food a Year, UN Report Reveals

Brexit threatens heritage and organic seed supply

Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK, says report

“I WANTED TO TRY AND CREATE A WORLD LESS DOMINATED BY GREED”

TOP 12 TIPS TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE FOR TIME-POOR PEOPLE​

Mewery introduces microalgae cultivated meat

Waitrose pledges £1m to help farmers cope with the impacts of climate change

LIDL PARTNERS WITH WWF TO HALVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT BY 2030

Lidl Announces New Strategy, Expanding Plant-Based and Reducing Animal Products

Canned drinks brands launch a ‘Canifesto’ for the on-trade

Abel and Cole introduces eco-labels for fruit and vegetables that details supply chain impacts

‘Vin in a tin’: Waitrose cans mini wine bottles in carbon-cutting measure

We're taking Danone to court over plastic pollution

Sainsbury’s ramps up removal of single-use plastic lids, saving 71 million pieces of plastic annually

BrewDog loses its ethical B Corp certificate

Report: 2022 UK Brand Sustainability Benchmark Report

From competition to collaboration: Why regenerative agriculture is ‘a team sport’ for major food firms

RSPB's Fair to Nature certiﬁcation scheme expanded to more sectors

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and McDonald’s ‘responsible for 39% of UK’s branded packaging pollution’

Reusable packaging – a revolution stuck in a rut

Unpriced climate risk threatens to wipe billions off food and agriculture businesses

Why supermarkets are removing best-before dates from packaging

‘It’s not the cow, it’s the how’: why a long-time vegetarian became beef’s biggest champion

NATIONAL FOOD STRATEGY : THE PLAN

WASTE NO MORE: TACKLING FOOD WASTE IN THE UK

WHY WE NEED TO BECOME A REFILL NATION

FEEDBACK - FIGHTING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM

Revealed: Why Hundreds of Thousands of Tonnes of Recycling are Going up in Smoke

Trade Bill: UK Government Votes to allow Food Imports with Lower Environmental Standards

Plastic Free Campaign An Interview with Mia Hadrill

Morrisons to remove plastic 'bags for life' and trial paper alternative

Plastic Free July

“We used to get asked if organic wines contained any alcohol”

Why it matters where your mushrooms come from

SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK FARMING ‘ESSENTIAL’ FOR A HEALTHY PLANET

Hellmann’s testing temperature-detecting smart jars

In Africa's fields, a plan to pay fair wages for chocolate withers

Radishes and rainbows: the LGBTQ growers reimagining the traditional family farm

Carlsberg ramps up regenerative farming practices across barley supply chain

How regenerative agriculture can enable sustainable nutrition

From calories to climate: Are carbon labels for food and drink about to go mainstream?

Asda revamps refill proposition and guarantees cheaper prices

Single-use plastic cutlery and plates to be banned in England

Supplier swap shop: Tesco launches surplus stock online marketplace

Ocado launches ‘world first’ digital DRS tech trial

Germany’s new plastics bill could see businesses contribute €450 million per year to litter cleanups

Survey: Cost-of-living crisis to set to lower consumer appetite for sustainable products

Global investors set deforestation and equality targets for farming and agriculture assets

Fairtrade releases first-ever HREDD guide for farmers

Tesco, Waitrose and Sainsbury’s back $11m initiative to tackle soy-led deforestation

Landworkers' Alliance and allies march in London for good food and farming

IF BIODIVERSITY IS ALIVE SO IS THE PLANET

five charts that show why our food is not ready for the climate crisis

A PERIOD OF PROFOUND CHANGE, A PERIOD OF REGENERTION

How You Can Practice Zero Waste Living this Summer

TOP 12 TIPS TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE FOR TIME-POOR PEOPLE