Retailers begin to buy into carbon labelling

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Products worth £2bn carry new footprint data as big names sign up to Carbon Trust initiative, but vast majority still provide no environmental information

Around £2bn worth of goods sold each year now carry carbon footprint information, according to new figures from the Carbon Trust, but critics have been quick to point out that the majority of retailers...

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