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Carbon labels dumped
UK supermarket Tesco has ditched its carbon reduction plan four years after pledging to label all of its 70,000 items with the accreditation.
Tesco has been featuring the Carbon Trust’s carbon reduction label on products since 2007, but is now saying the plan is too time-consuming and costly.
It expected other retailers to follow their lead giving the label “critical mass but it hasn’t happened”.
The company claims each product’s footprint takes several months to calculate; or about 250 years’ worth of research to ensure everything was labelled.
The decision comes as Tesco was ranked 93 out of over 2000 participants in the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Scheme in the UK last year.
Sir Terry Leahy, then-CEO of Tesco, hailed the decision as the start of a “revolution in green consumption” when it launched in 2007 to much fanfare, despite fellow retailers being dubious about the extent of research involved in the scheme.Tesco has since labelled about 500 of its products and begun research for another 1100, but a recent company statement now says it’ll move focus from individual bids to larger global supply chain issues.
“It’s only four years, but the Carbon Trust process has become something of an anachronism,” says Martin Chilcott, CEO of online sustainability company 2degrees, which was recruited by Tesco and Asda for the project.
“Tesco is not saying it doesn’t want to stop carbon foot-printing, but you can’t do it with 70,000 lines with the time it was taking.”
Source: Inside Retail
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