Environment

We are constantly looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint by focusing on the following areas:
Packaging - we strive to follow the ‘reduce, reuse, recycle' principles to ensure that we are not using unnecessary packaging.

Reducing landfill - we are striving to reduce the amount of waste we generate and, where waste does occur, to find alternatives for its disposal. We continue to put in place arrangements to donate some of our unsold food to local charities wherever possible by working in partnership with Fareshare and other organisations.

Litter - we recognise that we have a role in helping to tackle the issue of litter. Serving over 1 million customers per day from over 1,400 shops nationwide, Greggs, along with other food-on-the-go retailers, share the responsibility of helping to ensure that our local environments remain clean and pleasant places to live and work. Litter is an ongoing challenge. So far, we have taken the following measures:

• We no longer automatically issue carrier bags to every customer. Instead, our customers request a carrier bag if they need one. This has contributed significantly to the 17% reduction in the number of carrier bags we issued in 2008. • We have changed the materials used in our carrier bags to be more environmentally friendly so that, once disposed of, they are broken down naturally more quickly.
• Our paper bags and carrier bags have clear messages on them asking customers to ‘Please use a bin and Keep Britain Tidy.'
• The Keep Britain Tidy logo is displayed in all of our shops.
• In the last couple of years we have worked in partnership with over 50 Local Authorities to tackle any litter issues that they have brought to our attention.
• We continue to support and work with Keep Britain Tidy through their ‘Big Tidy Up' initiative amongst others.

We also participate in the Carbon Disclosure Project, widely regarded as the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and process, providing primary climate change data to the global market place.