79 Waste and packaging 86 Biodiversity 93 Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals Ecological sustainability 4% decrease in energy use in 2007 48% waste re-used/recycled in 2007 25 thousand hectares farmed by us 122 pesticides prohibited for use on own-brand food 1 www.co-operativemembership.coop/en/ food/ethics/ 2 www.cfs.co.uk/sustainability2005 3 For the Environmental Advisory Committee’s Terms of Reference and membership, see www.cooperative.coop/corporate/sustainability/ envadvisorytor 4 The Co-operative Bank was the first UK-based business to incorporate The Natural Step methodology in 1996, and it is considered to have been vital to the substantive improvements in performance realised to date.