UK: Courtauld Commitment 3 targets on track for success

WRAP has published the second interim report of Courtauld Commitment 3, which shows that manufacturing and retail waste has significantly reduced against the baseline 2012 figure.
Progress remains well ahead of the packaging target, despite a backdrop of growing sales (up by more than 5% for signatories who reported sales data). Changes in the mix of packaging materials and increases in recycling rates resulted in the overall reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, despite packaging weight actually increasing by 0.7% over this same period. The increase in packaging weight itself was for single use transit packaging, rather than household (primary) packaging (Press Release WRAP, 28 October 2015).
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