Australian sales of Fairtrade Certified and Labelled products has grown strongly for the fifth consecutive year with 2008 retail figures up by 80 per cent, Fairtrade Labelling Australia & New Zealand...

Tesco has announced it will continue expanding their carbon labelling project, with the goal to eventually have a carbon label on all their private label products. The UK’s largest supermarket chain...

WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has recently begun a scoping project with the aim of enabling retailers and brands to use recycled polypropylene plastic in food packaging.Polypropylene is...

Finnish food group Raisio is the world’s first food company to add an H2O label to product packaging, indicating the total water consumption of the product. The label was added to Elovena oat flakes,...

SunChips, a line of multigrain snacks within PepsiCo’s Frito Lay division, announced today that in 2010 it will introduce the first fully compostable snack chip bag made from plant-based materials. The...

By 2022 we will source and eat our food in ways radically different from today, according to a new report from the UK-based Food Ethics Council. Although the future is unpredictable, the scenarios highlight...

Mars, Incorporated, the producer of Snickers, M&M’s, Milky Way and Mars bars, has reported an aim to certify its entire cocoa supply as being produced in a sustainable manner by 2020. Mars, one...

Sustainable practices in agriculture, combined with the development of local food systems, can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the food system, finds a new paper by the Institute for Agriculture...

The search for sustainability has seen countless companies pledging to become sustainable in one way or another, but the flood of new labels signifying “green” or ethical is leading to confusion...

Unilever’s Lipton brand is pledging to become more ethical as the consumer giant releases new research into Australian attitudes towards sustainability. A twelve-month study, undertaken by AMR Interactive...