Sainsbury's becomes first UK supermarket to offer peat-free mushrooms

James Murray
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Credit: Sainsbury's

Mushrooms 'grown without peat' to be sold in over 200 stores across the country, following a decade of research to reduce crop’s climate impact

An underappreciated source of carbon emissions is about to be removed from the shopping basket of millions of British consumers, after Sainsbury's today announced it has become the first UK supermarket...

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