Good News Notes: “The switch will see all the wipes across its Mamia baby, Lacura beauty and household ranges chage to 100% plant-based fibres, making them all biodegradable. Aldi estimates the move will prevent the equivalent of 7,000 tonnes of single-use plastic from going to landfill each year. Richard Gorman, Plastics and Packaging Director at Aldi, said:…
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Tesco to Ban Plastic-Based Baby Wipes
Good News Notes: “Tesco will be the first retail store to cut sales of baby wipes containing plastic thanks to a decision a that will become effective in March. Some Huggies and Pampers products are among those that will no longer be sold in Tesco retail stores across the U.K. in March as part of a pledge to cut plastic…
Veganuary 2022: The new food to know, from Burger King nuggets to M&S
Good News Notes: “In 2021, a record number of people signed up to take part in the Veganuary, a challenge that encourages meat-eaters to adopt a plant-based lifestyle throughout the month of January. Organisers suggested that the surge could have been due to larger numbers of people experimenting with animal-free diets during the coronavirus pandemic. And…
Iceland Foods commits to being UK’s first plastic neutral supermarket
Good News Notes: “Iceland Foods plans to be the first British supermarket group to become plastic neutral, offsetting its remaining plastic footprint by recovering and recycling waste plastic, it said on Thursday. Supermarket groups have been responding to growing consumer demands for less waste, less plastic and more action on the environment. Those demands are…
Tesco Launches Loop Recycle Program in Stores
Good News Notes: “As British grocery store chain Tesco continues to grow its sustainability program, it has implemented a zero-waste packaging system at 10 of its stores in England. The Tesco program offered by TerraCycle’s reusable packaging platform Loop will include 88 products. The grocer says if the program is successful with consumers, packaging could…
Record 500,000 people pledge to eat only vegan food in January
Good News Notes: “A record 500,000 people have signed up to the Veganuary challenge to eat only plant-based foods for a month. The milestone is double the number who pledged to go vegan for January in 2019. A quarter of those taking up the challenge – 125,000 – are in the UK, and this year…
Vegan meatless meat is going mainstream. Beyond Burger and Impossible Foods have big competition.
Good News Notes: “In a year of splashy news for plant-based meat — skyrocketing sales! the new McPlant! —one of the biggest developments in the field went oddly underreported. In the last three months of 2020, some of the biggest companies in the world announced major moves into the plant-based meat space. In September, Tesco — the UK’s…
Unilever Will Put Carbon Footprint Labels on All Its Products
Good News Notes: “If you count calories, you have it easy; the food producers have to put a label on their products telling you how many there are per serving. The producers have it easy too; there are lots of labs that can do straightforward chemical analyses of the food product in hand. If you…
Coronavirus: 9 heartwarming examples of kindness and community spirit during the global outbreak
Good News Notes: “The daily updates on the global spread of the coronavirus are undoubtedly causing many to worry about how it may affect their lives now and in the future. In times of uncertainty, you will always be able to find certain individuals who make it their mission to bolster the morale of those…
Tesco to scrap multipack plastic wrapping in green drive
Good News Notes: “More than 350 million tonnes of plastic a year could be removed from the United Kingdom and Ireland‘s supermarket shelves after Tesco, the world’s third-largest retailer, pledged to scrap shrink-wrapped multipacks across all its own-brand and branded tinned food. The move – the first of its kind by a large supermarket chain – has…