Sainsbury’s publishes latest CSR Report

On June 28^th 2006 Sainsbury’s published their 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility Report.

The highlights from the report in terms of Resource Efficiency include:

Energy Efficiency

- The company has committed to reducing their carbon emissions by 5% by 2008 when compared to a baseline year of 2004/05. This is on the back of reductions in energy usage of over 20% since 1997/98

- 10% of the electricity used by the company comes from renewable sources

- Road miles were reduced by almost 5%

- Sainsbury’s signed up to the Carbon Disclosure Project

Recycling

- Waste sent to landfill by Sainsbury’s fell by almost 10% from 2004/05 to 2005/06

- Sainsbury’s aim to reduce waste sent to landfill by a further 10% by 2010 compared to a 2004/05 baseline

- The company is aiming to use anaerobic digestion and composting as a means of dealing with their food waste

- The report notes that 35-40% of domestic waste comes from the four main supermarkets

- New recycling banks increased recycling by the public by 13%

- Sainsbury’s launched 40 new salad lines with fully recyclable packaging

- The company reduced the packaging used on their own brand Easter eggs by 40%

- Carrier bag use rose by 2.5% in 2005/06, but this is less than sales growth

The full report can be downloaded from:

www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=20

More details on the Carbon Disclosure Network can be found at:

www.cdproject.net/