Organics Council 2018 year UK Organic Food Packaging Environmental. Pollution Report. Part І. Organics Council 2018

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1 Organics Council 2018 year UK Organic Food Packaging Environmental Pollution Report Part І Organics Council 2018

2 Recyclability information on labels (all surveyed products) * Includes: labels that suggest checking for recyclability information from elsewhere misleading labels that do not contain recyclability information despite claiming so

3 Best/worst supermarket at providing recyclability information on labels 56% 74% 44% 50% 50% 79% * Includes: 71% 29% 44% 56% 20% 80% 21% 25% 75% 26% labels that suggest checking for recyclability information from elsewhere misleading labels that do not contain recyclability information despite claiming so

4 Best/worst supermarket at providing recyclability information on labels * The instances below are considered incomplete recyclability information: labels that suggest checking for recyclability information from elsewhere misleading labels that do not contain recyclability information despite claiming so

5 Volume of misleading labels* found across all supermarkets * labels that do not contain recyclability information despite claiming so

6 Best/worst product certifier at providing recyclability information on labels (only certifiers whose certified products were found in greater quantity than three across all supermarkets were considered) 63% 37% * Includes: 27% 73% 20% 80% labels that suggest checking for recyclability information from elsewhere misleading labels that do not contain recyclability information despite claiming so

7 Best/worst product group at providing full recyclability information 47% 53% * Includes: 17% 83% 50% 50% 77% 23% 20% 80% 40% 60% 50% 50% 11% 89% 0% 100% 100% 0% labels that suggest checking for recyclability information from elsewhere misleading labels that do not contain recyclability information despite claiming so

8 Extent of recyclability information displayed by product group * The instances below are considered incomplete recyclability information: labels that suggest checking for recyclability information from elsewhere misleading labels that do not contain recyclability information despite claiming so

9 Surveyed supermarkets Company Store address Survey date Aldi High St, Feltham TW13 4DD 02/03/18 Lidl 309 Ruislip Rd E, Greenford UB6 9FH 26/02/18 Sainsbury s 360 Ealing Rd, Wembley HA0 1PF 10/02/18 Tesco The Old Hoover Bldg, Western Ave, Perivale, Greenford UB6 8DW 15/02/18 Coop * 107&116 Pitshanger Lane, London, W5 1RH 14/01/18 Waitrose/Ocado 2 Alexandria Road, London, W13 0NL 14/01/18 M&S Broadway, Ealing, London W5 5JW 02/02/18 The Waterglade Centre, 3, Arcadia Centre, Ealing, London W5 Morrisons 2ND 02/02/18 Asda 2-20 Western Rd, London NW10 7LW 27/01/18 Iceland * 10, The Longford Centre, High St, Feltham TW13 4BH 17/02/18 * This annual survey does not include a comparison with organic food packaging from two other major UK supermarkets, Coop and Iceland. At the time of the survey, these stores were found to have either none or less than five organic food products in total, thus allowing to infer they hardly sell organic foods and shall not be accounted for in the organic food packaging market survey.

10 List of organic certification bodies Code BE-BIO-01 ES-ECO-001-AN ES-ECO-024-MU GB-ORG-02 GB-ORG-04 GB-ORG-05 GB-ORG-17 IT-BIO-007 IT-BIO-009 NL-BIO-01 Certification body name Certisys Servicio Certificación CAAE Consejo de Agricultura Ecológica de la Región de Murcia (the Organic Farming Council of the Region of Murcia) Organic Farmers & Growers Ltd Organic Food Federation Soil Association Certification Ltd Scottish Food Quality Certification Ltd (Scottish Organic Producers Association, SOPA) Bioagricert Srl CCPB Srl Stichting Skal LIST OF CONTROL BODIES AND CONTROL AUTHORITIES IN THE ORGANIC SECTOR PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE 35(b) OF COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 834/2007. Available from (accessed March 2018)