Report - How Supermarkets Can Help Make Greener Shopping Easier

littleredcorvette

There was a report on BBC Breakfast News this morning about how Green the various supermarkets are - I think Waitrose came top.
The full report, by the National Consumer Council can be found here:

http://www.ncc.org.uk/responsibleconsumption/greening-supermarkets.pdf

savvy

OOOO this is not good;

"Food – through the way it is produced, processed, packaged and
transported – is the average household’s number one impact on
climate change, calculated to be responsible for around a third of our
climate impacts(1).The CO2 emission from air-freighting just one small
punnet of out-of-season strawberries from New Zealand is equivalent to
eleven school runs in the car."

Thanks for that post, wish I'd been able to watch the report :T

savvy

For info;

How Companies Scored
• Overall,Waitrose rated best – B –
with good scores on sustainable
sourcing. But it also had the highest
number of fruit likely to have been
airfreighted.
• Of the big four retailers,
Sainsbury’s received the best rating
– a C – along with M&S.
• We rated Asda, Co-op and Tesco
with a D – showing room for
improvement.
• Somerfield and Morrisons received
a poor E rating.



Must admit I wasn't impressed with Morrisions when I went in there a couple of months ago, funnily enough it is changing to a Waitrose any day now, which is where I was considering doing the odd shop now and then, budget permitting!:o