A growing number of businesses are developing policies to be eco-friendlier. The retail sector is one of those most focused on shifting towards sustainability, since customers...
The report, Health, Wellbeing and Productivity in Retail: The Impact of Green Buildings on People and Profit, says that although there is a surge in interest in health...
Electrical retailer AO.com has unveiled a new campaign designed to help tackle the food waste epidemic in the UK, currently costing the country an estimated £19bn...
Food retailers Marks & Spencer and Waitrose have both scored top marks in a global annual farm animal welfare benchmark. The benchmark can be used as...
More and more people are considering where they shop and the implications of their choices, from how companies impact the environment to how they treat employees,...
Both food retailers and the government must work to encourage sustainable food consumption and cut down on waste if the UK is to have a sustainable...
Consumers are being challenged to ask and think about who made their clothes and the impact their purchasing decisions have around the world. The first Fashion...
A poll has revealed that the majority of consumers would agree to pay more for bananas if this means that farmers have better wages and working...
There are several communities around the world whose prosperity depends on bananas. Despite one in three bananas sold in the UK being certified Fairtrade – meaning...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
A consortium of retailers is calling on the government to conduct major reforms of how business rates are paid, recommending taxation on energy usage. The Business...
Food waste is arguably one of the most serious issues facing the developed world. In terms of environmental and social costs, a huge amount of resources...
Recycling food waste for energy and agriculture would save £17 billion a year, avoid the emission of 27 million tonnes of greenhouse gases and power 60,000...
Avoidable food and drink waste in the UK has fallen by 21% since 2007, but households are still wasting 4.2 million tonnes of food every year,...
UK and Irish authorities have failed to prosecute those responsible for “organised fraud in the meat supply chain” in the wake of the horsemeat scandal, MPs...