Look for the label

Where can you find the Carbon Reduction Label?

The Carbon Reduction Label is the simple, easy way of making a difference. And by choosing products that carry the Carbon Reduction Label, we can further encourage brands to reduce their carbon footprint. Here are just some of the brands which proudly carry the Label: Kingsmill bread, Walkers crisps, Tate & Lyle sugar and a range of Tesco’s own brand products, such as pasta, milk, orange juice, lightbulbs, washing detergent, kitchen and toilet paper. You’ll find carbon-labeled products in most aisles of your supermarket and right across the high street. In fact, last year nine out of 10 households in the UK bought a carbon labeled product, and the average UK household spends £78 on carbon labeled products each year.

To date, the Carbon Trust has worked with more than 90 brands and 5,000 individual product lines, helping them to measure and reduce their carbon footprint – and there are many more household names keen to add the Label to their products.

The total retail value of consumer goods sold in the UK bearing the Carbon Reduction Label has just reached £2 billion, and this figure rises to nearly £3 billion if business products, like CEMEX UK and Marshalls plc, are included. Just recently, Tesco confirmed it is to put the Label on its own brand pasta which will be available in stores nationwide in October. Clearly, the more products displaying the Label, the quicker we can reduce overall carbon emissions – a good thing for our own carbon footprints and for our families.

See the full list of products that have obtained the Carbon Reduction Label.