By Ian Quinn2021-01-26T17:06:00+00:00
Having just published his new book ‘The Green Grocer’, Iceland MD Richard Walker was no doubt hoping for a better result than the retailer coming bottom of the pile in Greenpeace’s latest plastic reduction league table.
Walker’s new tome, billed as “one man’s manifesto for corporate activism’, promises to help other retailers become greener. The back-cover blurb even cites reducing single-use plastic as one of the ways Iceland is “effecting real change” in the supermarket sector. And with good reason. Iceland has slashed levels of own brand plastic by a third since 2017, and has been one of the retailers driving more transparent reporting on plastic and pioneering trials of deposit return schemes.
Biffa s investment at its Aldridge site is going to plan
A trio of waste management projects are progressing to plan despite the current coronavirus lockdowns across the UK, said the company behind them in its latest trading update. Biffa confirmed that phase two of its Seaham rPET plant and projects at Washington and Aldridge are running smoothly. The company expects all three to come online…
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