Tesco has published its corporate social responsibility report for the year 2006/7. The company has pledged to achieve absolute reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from its UK business, and to publish the carbon footprint of all Tesco stores and distribution centres worldwide, with a target to halve emissions from such buildings by 2020.
It also aims to install what is thought to be the world's most advanced automated recycling machines in 120 Tesco stores and has a new target to reduce packaging by 25 per cent by 2010 has been set. All packaging have labels indicating whether it can be be recycled.
The report also estimates the company's total direct emissions for the financial year to February 2007 to be 4.13m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). This includes both UK and overseas operations.
The UK business alone emitted 2.25m tonnes of CO2e or 55% of total Group direct emissions. This equates to approximately this 0.3% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and 2% of the food industry's emissions (by which is meant the retailing and manufacturing sector).
The UK food retail sector is estimated to emit 9.2m tonnes CO2e annually, plus the associated distribution emissions of approximately 2.4m tonnes CO2e. Tesco's emissions therefore equate to roughly a fifth of the footprint of food retail.
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