Our goals
By 2025:
By 2025:
By 2025:
Our projects
Tackling ocean plastics
Our refill machine
Our progress
Packaging Goals 2020 | 2020 Status (where applicable) | 2021 Status (where applicable) | 2022 Status |
By 2025, reduce own label plastic packaging by 40% relatively against a 2017 baseline | 18% | 20.1% | 29.4% |
By 2025, reduce own label packaging by 25% relatively against a 2019 baseline | -3.4% | -2% | 13.1% |
By 2025, 100% of own label & branded packaging to be recyclable, reusable, refillable or renewable (by tonnage) | 96% | 93% | 94.6% |
*Relative reduction based on tonnage of plastic per £1m revenue. Further information on our progress and plastic footprints can be viewed in our CSR reports here.
70t of plastic removed
70t of plastic removed from milk bottles, with bottles containing up to 30% recycled content
Removing plastic trays
Removing plastic trays across our fruit and veg range, including tomatoes, tenderstem broccoli, asparagus and baby corn
Tags removed
Removed tags from fruit & veg, including our spring onions and bunched beetroot
Pizza bases replaced with cardboard
18t of expanded polystyrene pizza bases replaced with cardboard
100% recycled content
Up to 100% recycled content in trigger spray cleaning bottles and egg boxes
Prevented Ocean Plastics
First adopter of Prevented Ocean Plastics, avoiding 10 million water bottles from entering the marine environment to date
Driving circularity
Driving circularity by incorporating recycled content, with up to 50% recycled content across our drinks range
Removing overlids
We are removing overlids from pots in Dairy, working to remove up to 38 million pieces of plastic from the category
Problem plastic
Removed 2,000 tonnes of problem plastics from our shelves, including black plastic, PVC and EPS
Plastic Straws
Removed 67m single use plastic straws from our beverage cartons
Plastic cotton bud stems
Removed 570m plastic stems from our cotton buds
Plastic forks
Removed 8m single use plastic forks from our salads ranges
Our policies, reports and documents
Our policy on microplastics can be found here.