Sustainability

We reduce our food waste by carefully managing our stock, donating unsold food to Fareshare and local causes which means none of our food waste goes to landfill.

We’re trialling a landmark plastic bottle deposit and return scheme at music festival Co-op pop-up shops this summer. Find out more from Iain our Environment Manager.

In a UK first, we’re switching all Co-op branded bottled water to 50% recycled plastic. That’s recycling #TheCoopWay.

Cathryn, Head of Food Policy looks back over our history of cruelty free Co-op household and toiletry products and shares how you can help end animal testing for cosmetics worldwide.

We’re working on a fully biodegradable paper tea bag, making Co-op Food the first retailer to find a solution to the problem of plastic waste caused by the nation’s favourite beverage.

An update on our efforts to make all Co-op food packaging easy to recycle.

If we’re lucky enough to see some sun this bank holiday weekend, I’m sure many of you will be firing up the barbecue. But I bet there are very few who give a thought to the charcoal you pick up to provide your al fresco feast. Having recently returned from Namibia, I will be giving…

2018 Update In 2018 we used 6,206 tonnes of palm oil in 793 Co-op branded food and non-food products (2017: 6,654 tonnes in 1,038 Co-op branded food products). All the palm oil in these products was certified as sustainable under one of the RSPO certification schemes. The graph shows how we are managing the change…