Reducing packaging

Reducing packaging

It is vital to continue to minimise packaging to help reduce carbon emissions whilst maintaining the benefits of freshness and safety.

Packaging does not only have to be environmentally friendly but needs to be multi-functional by meeting design and storage requirements. The challenge is to reduce packaging for our own brand products without sacrificing its effectiveness at promoting food safety and preventing food waste. At the same time, we want to help our customers to recycle through on pack information and via our extensive recycling facilities.

By 2020, we'll make sure that our own packaging has been reduced by a half compared to 2005.

Read more about our commitments and progress in Sainsbury's 20 by 20 Sustainability Plan.

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UK Packaging Awards

UK Packaging Awards 2011

We are over the moon with our success at the UK Packaging Awards this week. Having achieved 5 shortlisted nominations,we scooped 2 awards and a highly commended. We work really hard reduce packaging whilst improving it and making customers lives easier. It's great to get recognition from the whole industry.

By Stuart Lendrum on 18 November 2011

Reducing apple, juice and pizza packaging

apple bags packaging reduction

Packaging does not only have to be environmentally friendly but needs to be multi-functional by meeting design and storage requirements. Here are three recent examples of how we are working towards reducing our packaging by half compared to 2005.

By Stuart Lendrum on 19 October 2011

Reducing packaging to a minumum

Rubbish packaging

We have been at the forefront of packaging reduction for many years, before being an original signatory to the first Courtauld commitment, a voluntary agreement with WRAP to improve resource efficiency and reduce the carbon and wider environmental impact of grocery retail.

By Stuart Lendrum on 14 September 2011

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