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My Viewpoint: associate director of recycling at Coca-Cola Enterprises GB looks at motivations behind consumer recycling
UNDERSTANDING BETTER the motivations behind consumer recycling behaviour and how to encourage positive change will push recycling rates up – both in and out of home, says Nick Brown. Through the UK may be one of the most rapidly…
Professor Andre Spicer comments on a new sensitivity in CEO’s
THE MANNER of Justin King’s departure from Sainsbury’s shows a new sensitivity to the image of greedy fat cat bosses, says Professor Andre Spicer of Cass Business School. Justin King is leaving at about the right time. CEOs who…
January monthly market insight
PRESTIGE PURCHASING’S Christopher Clare, gives Footprint readers exclusive access to its hot-off-the-presses January monthly market insight. The top movements this month relate to the fresh produce and fish and seafood markets. Price changes over the festive period have not…
The Waste Agenda in 2014
GILES WHITELEY, CEO of Specialist Waste Recycling crystal ball gazes the 2014 waste agenda There is nothing like an open question to get the grey cells working, so to arrive back into the office after the Christmas break to…
My viewpoint: Inder Poonaji on the future of corporate sustainability
Nestlé has reached the heady heights of the top-ranking food company in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. So, where does it go from here, asks Inder Poonaji S&P Dow Jones Indices,…
Businesses must adapt to survive
FROM FLOODS to droughts and heatwaves to snow drifts, the UK’s climate is changing. Food businesses, more than any, need to change with it, says Ashley Clarkson. April’s Footprint had a…
Leaf rust: Coffee calamity
LAST COFFEE season saw a massive outbreak of a devastating fungus that seemed to take everyone by surprise says Xavier Hamon, Climate and Environment Officer, Twin. The coffee leaf rust epidemic stretched…
Waste collections – Are you losing out?
THE GENERAL waste collection model used by contractors to foodservice businesses needs to go, says Dean Pearce, regional commercial manager at ReFood. The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates that within the profit sector of the hospitality industry…
The Political Print
THE QUESTION of how to feed the world is almost overwhelming in its complexity and it deservedly receives much attention from politicians, businesses and civil society. From out of the pack, the concept of “sustainable intensification” has emerged as the…
