Greencore's EnCycle project aims to recycle waste food and packaging into a biofuel for renewable energy. Once operational, Greencore will send virtually zero waste to landfill in the UK.
Morrisons created a ‘Cut the Carbon’ campaign to enable colleagues to understand what constitutes a Carbon Footprint, and how they can help in the workplace to combat climate change. As a result over 85% of Morrisons stores were saving energy by the end of 2008.
Produce World Group embarked on an ambitious strategy to embed sustainability into its operations, utilising a dedicated online platform to meet KPIs on areas including energy, water and carbon intensity, waste, health and safety and resource use.
Sainsbury's will be the first supermarket to make its daily food deliveries to its new environmental store using a lorry which is powered by fuel produced from waste.
Sainsbury’s has an overall target to reduce CO2 emissions per square metre by 25% by 2012 in its stores. This case study shows how its new flagship store in Dartmouth was built with consideration for the use of energy, water, waste, timber and land.
In a European first, Sainsbury's has installed 'Kinetic Road Plates' at their new store in Gloucester that create green energy every time a customer drives into the car park. The plates are expected to produce enough energy to power the store's checkouts
Sainsbury's first environmentally-friendly convenience store will save enough energy to heat 3.5 million Taste the Difference ready meals over 15 years - an estimated 27 tonnes of CO2.
Tesco is constructing stores with a carbon footprint 50% smaller than those built in 2006 . This case study shows the first finished example of a store built using Tesco's new, low carbon Environmental Blueprint in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, UK.
Tesco aims to halve its carbon footprint by 2020 through investments in renewable and sustainable energy. Its new wind turbines at selected stores produce the average electricity use of 1.5 UK homes.
Tesco is reducing its carbon footprint by embedding a sustainable, low carbon approach throughout the business. All new Tesco buildings will emit, on average, 50% less CO2e than a store built in 2006.
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