Unilever UK and Ireland

About us

Actions We’re Taking in the UK & Ireland: 

   Tackling Food Waste
In our recent Future Foods announcement we pledged globally to halve food waste across our operations by 2025 – five years ahead of the UN’s SDG 2030 target. Our accelerated plan of action is fuelled by the urgency of what is not only a humanitarian but also an environmental and economic crisis.

   Closing The Loop On Plastic
We believe plastic is a valuable material. It is crucial for the safe and efficient distribution of our products, and has a lower carbon footprint than many alternative materials. It has its place, but that place is definitely not littering our streets, rivers and oceans.

We need to keep plastic inside the circular economy – where it is reused, recycled or composted. And where it is kept in a loop, to stop it from ever finding its way into the environment.

   Boosting Plant-Based Foods
At a global level, we are eating, growing and producing too much meat, not enough vegetables and not enough variety. This is not good for the health of people or the planet. Many of the foods we eat are resource intensive, meaning they take more water and land to grow and produce than other foods, which can damage the environment.

To help address this, we’re developing and launching more plant-based products and our brands are helping people to eat plant-based more often, offering shoppers healthier and more sustainable alternatives to meat proteins and expanding our range of dairy free and vegan options.

   Decarbonising Our Business
Image shows a sign saying ‘There Is No Planet B’
When it comes to climate action, every tonne of carbon counts. That’s why we’ve carefully measured our greenhouse gas footprint to understand where our emissions come from so we can target our efforts.
The greenhouse gases we emit come from energy used to make our products, fuel to distribute them to our customers, and energy and refrigerants to keep our ice creams cold.

We’re transitioning to renewable energy across our operations, finding ways to de-carbonise our advertising processes and reformulating our products to offer plant-based alternatives like vegan foods and fossil-fuel-free cleaning products.