The money will focus on several things, including cutting carbon emissions and plastic packaging.
There are undoubted challenges for big businesses aiming to reduce their impact on the environment.Dinendra Haria | SOPA Images | Getty Images across 20 years to reduce its carbon emissions to a net zero by 2040.said the money would focus on cutting carbon emissions, plastic packaging, food waste and water use. At the same time the business will look to increase sustainable practices such as recycling.
On the plastics front, Sainsbury's said it would halve its use of plastic packaging by 2025. By the end of this year, it will replace polystyrene packaging and dark colored plastic — which is tough to recycle — with "recyclable alternatives." Commenting on Tuesday's announcement, Mike Childs, head of policy at Friends of the Earth, said it was "encouraging" to see the supermarket "stepping up to the plate on the climate emergency — the rapid transition to a net zero economy is urgently required."
Instead, it will sell the tins individually, with customers able to purchase plastic-free multibuy deals instead. This initiative will start being introduced to stores from March, with Tesco claiming it will help remove 67 million pieces of plastic.While the ambition of these aims is laudable, there are undoubted challenges for big businesses looking to reduce their impact on the environment. The sheer scale of these operations means that sweeping changes can take years to come about.
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