Sainsbury’s
The supermarket giant notes the innovative equipment delivers emissions savings of around 8,783 tonnes each year
The supermarket has made a commitment to invest £1bn over the next 20 years to reach the goal
The supermarket uses almost 120,000 tonnes of plastic packaging every year
It is offering shoppers a 5p coupon for each qualifying drink container that is returned to the reverse vending machine
The average person in England now buys only 10 bags a year compared with 140 bags in 2014 before the charge was introduced
The supermarket’s pledge comes as part of a wider promise to remove 1,280 tonnes of plastic from products over the next year
The electric vehicle will drop off up to 30 orders a day to customers who have shopped for groceries online
They will work with waste firm Viridor, which has developed a method of reusing the hard-to-recycle material
The ‘Waste Less, Save More’ project was launched in 2015 to help consumers reduce food waste and ultimately save money
The bikes have enough capacity to carry several customers’ orders at a time while producing zero emissions and no noise pollution