Trayless is Waste-less for Pork Pies
After implementing the second stage of investment into automation equipment this year, we were able to move our higher volume pork pie packs to trayless packaging.
The food industry is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs) globally, second only to fossil fuels. These GHGs drive climate change, which in turn threatens our ability to produce food. We need urgent action if we’re to avoid pushing the environment to a tipping point from which it can never recover.
Packaging & Food Waste
Innovating to reduce virgin resource use, promote circularity and eliminate waste.
Packaging
Packaging plays an important role in keeping food protected and fresh, which in turn helps to reduce the impacts of food waste. But plastic is also a big problem for the environment, and we currently use 4,140 tonnes of plastic every year, so we’re committed to new innovations and solutions that can address this dilemma.
As a signatory of WRAP’s UK Plastics Pact, we’re working to remove plastic where possible, incorporate more recycled content, and use materials that are more easily recyclable. and use materials that are more easily recyclable.
Our Targets
We align with the UK Plastics Pact targets: Eliminate problematic or unnecessary single-use packaging by 2025.
- of plastics packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025
- average recycled content across all plastic packaging by 2025
Food Waste
We want to be a zero waste business by 2040. This is a big challenge and means eliminating edible food waste and collaborating with others to reduce, recycle and reuse our waste and water resources. We’re already zero waste to landfill and have already been for many years but this is not enough, we must go further.
Our efforts in this area are guided by the Courtauld Commitment 2030, which aims for a 50% reduction in food waste from a 2020/21 baseline by 2030. We’ve set reduction targets for food waste over the next three years including a 10% reduction in 2024/25.
Case Studies
One Million Meals for Fareshare
As a leading food company, we want to do what we can to address hunger and food insecurity in our local communities.