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UK supermarket waste reduction effort halts packaging growth

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August 1, 2008 - Packaging growth flattens, despite 1.8% sales increase as result of efforts by UK supermarkets, brand owners to cut food, packaging waste. Signatories to Courtauld Commitment to reduce household packaging/food waste achieve 2008 goal, appear on target to meet 2010 objective, according to statistics from Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), Banbury, UK. “Packaging is the most visual, intrusive and irritating part of household rubbish,” says Environment Minister Joan Ruddock. “People say they feel it’s out of their control and that they want something done about it. WRAP, retailers and brands have made progress together and are coming up with increasingly innovative solutions, but we need to keep moving forward,” she says. “The Government will continue to support WRAP and welcomes plans to explore a move away from weight to carbon dioxide as a better measure of the environmental cost of food waste and packaging,” she concludes.
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