At the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit in New York this week, our Co-op has been announced as the first British retailer to become a signatory of the UN’s ‘Our Only Future’ campaign. Steve Murrells Co-op CEO shares more.
Our compostable carrier bags are currently in over 1,000 Co-ops, but to help reduce the use of single-use plastic bags, we want them in more! We’re calling on UK Government and English Local Authorities to speed up the rollout of food collections.
Future of Food 2030 plan: how we'll source food with care, treat people fairly as well as learn and celebrate together.
Environment Manager, Iain Ferguson shares our latest innovation in our commitment to reduce single-use plastic in Co-op stores and packaging.
We’re committed to making 100% of our packaging easy to recycle by 2023 and reducing the amount of plastic waste.
We’re trialling a landmark plastic bottle deposit and return scheme at music festival Co-op pop-up shops this summer. Find out more from Iain our Environment Manager.
We’re working on a fully biodegradable paper tea bag, making Co-op Food the first retailer to find a solution to the problem of plastic waste caused by the nation’s favourite beverage.
An update on our efforts to make all Co-op food packaging easy to recycle.
2018 Update In 2018 we used 6,206 tonnes of palm oil in 793 Co-op branded food and non-food products (2017: 6,654 tonnes in 1,038 Co-op branded food products). All the palm oil in these products was certified as sustainable under one of the RSPO certification schemes. The graph shows how we are managing the change…