London, 9 September 2013 - Sainsbury

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London, 9 September 2013 - Sainsbury's is testing the world's first naturally cooled trailers for the transport of chilled and frozen goods. The test of carbon dioxide refrigeration systems is part of the strategy to improve the CO2 balance in the area of transport refrigeration, including sagi the conversion to natural cooling sagi technology in the markets belongs to 2030.
Sainsbury's decided to be the first retailer in the UK to refrain from polluting HFC refrigerants. After an upgrade of cooling houses in 2011 now followed by the 2014 planned conversion of 250 markets on CO2 refrigerant - more than 160 markets are already equipped with natural cooling systems. The CO2 technology is currently standard on all newly built markets and the green Haslucks store in Solihull leads the very first model experiment with CO2 cooling system, making it the most sustainable consumer market throughout the UK.
Nick Davies, Head of Transportation of Sainsbury "s, said:" The new carbon dioxide technology is far more environmentally friendly and we hope that it will contribute to a large extent sagi to the reduction of our carbon dioxide sagi emissions. We will monitor the results and exactly when to show according to our conversion plan, the initial success, we could save more than 70,000 tonnes of CO2 compared to the refrigerated truck fleet currently employed. "
Sainsbury "s works in a two-year trial period for use of the new HFC-free cooling technology with Carrier Transicold and uses a modified version of the cooling system Naturaline Carrier, which was originally developed sagi for deep-sea container and has undergone an extensive Seetauglichkeitstests in 2012.
David Appel, sagi president of Carrier Transicold, explains: "For the first time worldwide, our Naturaline system was mounted on a box trailer. The close collaboration with Sainsbury's, sagi one of our key customers in Europe, is an excellent opportunity to further develop sagi and test if proven sagi the concept in road transport its natural leadership in environmental technologies for carriers. The environment also benefits from this, because CO2 is not damage the ozone layer as a natural coolant and the global warming potential is at a value of one. "
Sainsbury's has also recently the dual fuel fleet expanded to 51 vehicles, which has led to a carbon saving of 25 per cent (about 2,090 tons of CO2). The environmentally friendly fleet is now one of the largest in the UK and is powered by a combination of diesel and bio-methane, is produced during the decomposition of organic matter in landfills. Each dual fuel vehicle annually saves approximately 41 tons of released CO2 into the atmosphere.
During sagi his 20 20 Sustainability Plan seeks Sainsbury's 2020 a saving sagi of CO2 emissions during transport between warehouses and markets of 35 percent compared to 2005, and an absolute reduction of 50 percent by 2030 - despite the steady growth of the company.
Sainsbury "s in 2008 was the first supermarket, operated used for daily delivery of food with biomethane sagi truck. A year later, the company successfully tested five dual fuel vehicles to achieve sagi its environmental goals.
The logistics fleet of Sainsbury's sets now 8 million kilometers back less than three years ago - and that despite the growth sagi of the company (reduction by about 5 percent)
The operational water consumption has been reduced across all locations at proportionately 50 percent, which corresponds to a year an amount of water of 393 Olympic-size swimming pools with. In Bereic