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The need to drive down energy costs and consumption and make more efficient use of natural resources are the main forces behind a significant growth in spending on green goods and services by UK businesses over the next four years, a new report forecasts.
British retailers have failed to meet a pledge to cut back on supply chain food and packaging waste, with thousands of tonnes of fruit and vegetables, milk and yogurt thrown away every year, after being rejected for being the wrong shape, size or standard.
The East of England Co-operative Society has teamed up with a locally recognised carbon standard to help its suppliers in Suffolk, Norfolk and North Essex go green.
Farmed fish sold under the Marks & Spencer eco-label is no better for the environment than conventionally farmed fish, a study on the sustainability claims of major fish producers says.
Businesses with complex supply chains and thousands of different products to carbon footprint are being offered a new service that promises to simplify and significantly speed up the process.
Supermarkets and food companies are improving how they source palm oil, a key ingredient in half of all packaged foods – but not fast enough to prevent further environmental damage, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
The Carbon Trust has launched a new company that it claims will provide an "independent" service for 'free’ to companies looking to drive down their energy bills through effective energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
Collapsed wind turbine manufacturer Proven Energy has been acquired by Ireland-based Kingspan Renewables.
One of the largest new entrants to the UK energy supply market, First Utility, has described the move by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to auction 100 per cent of its electricity to any household supplier as "smoke and mirrors".
UK canned seafood manufacturer John West has launched a new online application that for the first time will enable anyone to check whether its fish has been sourced sustainably or not.
Toy giant Mattel, the company behind Barbie, has announced that it will stop buying paper and packaging linked to rainforest destruction following a global campaign by Greenpeace.
A number of potential buyers have come forward to buy some or all of the assets of Proven Energy Ltd, the long established small wind manufacturer that folded this month following a fault with one of its turbines.
In what is being described as a first for the UK energy industry, green energy supplier, Good Energy, said it is now sourcing one third of its electricity from solar power.
A Marks & Spencer (M&S) programme to source more sustainable cotton and improve the lives of thousands of farmers in India that produce the raw material for the retailer has been extended after it has been shown to have cut water use by more than half and cut pesticides use by more than 80 per cent.
As part of its plan to become the most sustainable major retailer, Marks and Spencer today committed to tracing where and how every product in its clothing and home range is made.