Published Date:
09 November 2009
Supermarket Sainsbury's will underline its green credentials today with a crackdown on environmentally damaging refrigerators.
Chief executive Justin King will tell an Environment Agency conference that it plans to switch to carbon-dioxide fridges in all its stores by 2030. CO2 fridges are far less harmful to the environment than the hydrofluorocarbon units in general use.
Sainsbury's, the UK's third biggest supermarket, plans to convert the first 135 of its 800 stores by 2014. The supermarket says switching to CO2 fridges would slash the carbon footprint from its current store base by about a third.
Mr King said: "Fridges are by far and away the biggest source of CO2 emissions in any supermarket through both the energy required to power them and the refrigerants themselves.
"If all supermarkets in the UK switched to this sort of refrigeration, the reduction in CO2 emissions would amount to around two million tonnes a year."
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Last Updated:
09 November 2009 8:27 AM
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Location:
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