Introduction:

The Food and Grocery Industry is the biggest user of road transportation and has a responsibility to manage its impact on the environment and the ECR member companies accounts for approximately one half of all grocery road miles travelled.

Through Defra’s Food Industry Sustainable Strategy (FISS), ECR has been identified as a key way to drive collaboration across transport and distribution for a more sustainable supply chain.

This workgroup brings together the distribution directors of the leading retailers and manufacturers to drive awareness and change in the industry. From measuring the industry’s contribution through to setting up projects to deliver improvements on the ground.

This builds on the work completed in 2008 which saw the saving of 53m road miles.
 

Aim:

• To enable the saving of at least 120m road miles between 2007-10
• To drive the industry’s participation in collaborative distribution practices that are sustainable to the environment.

Objectives:

• To produce a tool to enable users to understand, measure and improve vehicle fill delivering fewer road miles.
• To identify the key opportunities within distribution systems which can be supported by technology solutions to enable fewer and friendlier miles.
• Encourage best practice within the broader industry building on the work completed to date within ECR.

Membership:

Find out more about ECR UK's SUSTAINABLE DISTRIBUTION Group here

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