Plastic offers numerous benefits such as extending food life, ensuring hygiene and being light, durable and inexpensive. However, these same qualities make it difficult to replace and contribute to its persistence in the environment decades after use. To achieve our goal of having 100% recyclable, reusable, or compostable primary plastic packaging for our Own Brand products by 2030, ongoing initiatives to reduce plastic usage include eliminating unnecessary packaging, switching to more environmentally friendly materials and improving plastic recycling.

To reduce our environmental impact, we have initiated programmes to prevent food waste and all kinds of waste from going to landfills, and work towards meeting our targets - that is to achieve a waste diversion rate of 80% by 2030. By collaborating with NGOs and local partners and leveraging technology, we can optimise our use of natural resources, while saving the energy, water and costs involved in production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions such as methane produced by food and other waste.

Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validation for our near-term Scope 1 and Scope 2 reduction targets for carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions is an important step towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Traditional refrigerants account for significant emissions across our retail businesses, therefore, to achieve our targets we are investing in pioneering new technologies such as water loop refrigeration technology and using refrigerants with a lower global warming potential (GWP) wherever possible.