Green supermarkets?
A new report from the National Consumer Council looks at how well the top supermarkets do in environmental friendliness. Unsurprisingly, the answer is “not very”. Again unsurprisingly, perhaps, Waitrose came out best in the survey, although they did stock organic strawberries that had been flown from New Zealand. Morrison’s and Somerfield came bottom.
[The NCC] urged them to make environmentally-friendly options the norm for all shoppers, rather than simply the more ecologically aware.
“We all need to understand that food is the typical household’s number one contributor to climate change,” NCC chairman Lord Whitty said.
“By throwing away ten billion carrier bags each year and transporting carrots from Egypt and strawberries from New Zealand, we hit the environment hard.”
pax et bonum
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