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Further information:
Local waste management and recycling:
www.recycle-more.co.uk www.recyclenow.com
In this report:
Carrier bags: page 31
Fighting food waste
We continue to support the waste and Resources action Programme (WRAP) in its commitment to reduce food waste in the UK by 155,000 tonnes by March 2010 (against 2008 levels). To help customers to avoid wasting food, Waitrose puts recommended serving sizes or number of servings on packaging where possible, is making ‘use by’, ‘best before’ and ‘display until’ date codes more prominent, and is increasing awareness through publications, leafl ets and
waitrose.com. We support WRAP’s love food Hate waste campaign and Waitrose also has an agreement with food charity FareShare that allows them to acquire and distribute surplus own-brand food in our supply chain to good causes, and through a similar deal, Company Shop can also now purchase surplus food from suppliers for onward discount retailing in staff shops.
As part of our efforts, 50 Waitrose shops now send their food waste to an anaerobic plant in Bedford. Here, it is mixed with pig slurry; the methane created is turned into ‘green’ energy, and the residue is used to make a high-nutrient fertiliser. Last year, 307 tonnes of waste were diverted from landfi ll through this trial scheme, which was extended to Peter Jones in 2009. However, the large-scale expansion of such a scheme is restricted by the current lack of anaerobic digestion facilities in the country, so we are also exploring trialling on-site aerobic digestion of food waste from John Lewis Cambridge.
Encouraging customers
We look for ways to help customers do their bit too. We clearly identify the materials used in our own-brand packaging, to aid recycling, provide recycling points for clothing, glass and paper in our car parks, where space permits, and encourage customers to reuse and recycle plastic bags or switch to more sustainable alternatives (see Hot topic: carrier bags on page 31).
As a retailer and a producer of own-brand electrical products, we fulfi l our obligations under the UK’s Waste electrical and electronic equipment (Weee) Regulations by contributing to the Distributor Take Back Scheme (DTS), which helps to fund local recycling facilities for electrical items enabling people to recycle old appliances at sites across the UK free of charge. We will also be introducing battery recycling points, which will be a legal requirement for retailers of batteries from February 2010, to support the UK Government’s target to achieve a recycling rate of 25% of all household batteries by 2012.
61.4 MWh Green energy generated from food waste through anaerobic digestion in 2008/09
All set for handsets:
All John Lewis and Waitrose Food and Home shops offer mobile phone recycling. For each handset, customers receive a gift voucher, while £1 is donated to John Lewis’s Charity of the Year, or customers can opt to donate all the money. £8,250 was raised for John Lewis’s 2008/09 Charity of the Year, Wallace and Gromit’s Children’s Foundation. (See page 19 for more on this year’s Charity of the Year.)
New scheme beds down:
In 2008, John Lewis introduced a recycling scheme for mattresses and divan sets, where the metal, wood, foam and fabric components are separated and recycled at a shredding plant in nottingham, and has recently begun trials at Cribbs Causeway and Milton Keynes to recycle carpet waste.
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