Sustainability

What's important to you is important to us

From carrying 100% sustainable seafood and achieving zero waste goals in our stores, to fighting hunger in our communities and supporting local farms, we share your passion and commitment to making the world a better place. Together, we're Greater than Groceries.

We celebrate and honor our bond with local farmers, suppliers and manufacturers, because it brings us together as a community. We are all linked by a shared concern for our earth and a desire to care for the diverse bounty it provides. That's why we work hard every day to make certain that what you find in our stores – from the foods we carry to the services we offer – demonstrates our care for this connection and our stewardship for our planet's natural resources.

See our full sustainability report and more information here.

Did you know?

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  100%of the seafood we sell

  comes from sustainable sources

  • Assessed against our sustainable seafood policy criteria by Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), an independent third party. https://www.gmri.org
  • From farms and production plants certified for sustainable practices. https://www.bapcertification.org
  • From credible Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs).
  • To support these claims, our seafood is traceable back to the fishery or farm. seafoodexpert@hannaford.com
  • Find out more about our sustainable seafood practices here.
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  23 million pounds of food

  was donated to hunger relief in 2017

  • When we have safe, edible food that we cannot sell, our highest priority is getting that food to people in need.
  • This provided 19 million meals for people in our communities.
  • This helped us reduce our food waste by over 50% in 2017.
  • Our hunger relief partners are:
    • Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine https://www.gsfb.org
    • New Hampshire Food Bank https://www.nhfoodbank.org
    • Vermont Foodbank https://www.vtfoodbank.org
    • Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York https://regionalfoodbank.net
    • Greater Boston Food Bank https://www.gbfb.org
    • Worcester County Food Bank https://foodbank.org
    • Feeding America http://www.feedingamerica.org
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  78% of our waste was recycled

  in 2017; we'll get to 80% by 2020

  • That includes recycling 86 million pounds of cardboard.
  • That includes recycling 3.3 million pounds of plastic.
  • We diverted 7.5 million pounds of food waste to a bio-digester, creating clean energy. http://www.exeteragrienergy.com/about-us/
  • We diverted 7 million pounds of food waste to compost farms.
    
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  100% of our stores are certified

  as stewards for sustainability

  • We partner with the Manomet Grocery Stewardship Certification to audit our stores annually for environmentally preferred practices.
  • We review water use, energy use and storm water run-off practices to ensure we operate with minimal impact to the environment.
  • All of our stores meet or exceed the standards set by Manomet and work to continually improve their score year after year. https://www.manomet.org/program/sustainable-economies/grocery-stewardship-certification
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  7 million kilowatt hours

  of energy saved by switching to LED lights

  • That's enough energy to power 568 homes for a year.
  • Using high-efficiency overhead lighting in our stores can save up to 500,000 kWh annually (enough to power 46 homes for a year).
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  100% of our store brand coffee

  in single-serve packaging is Fair Trade Certified™

  • Last year, the global Fair Trade movement empowered 1.6 million farmers and workers across Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean to reach better terms with their trading partners.
  • Fair Trade Certified products are produced according to rigorous standards that protect farmers, workers, fishermen and the environment.

Hannaford is a leader in the country for managing sustainability across a large number of stores.

Peter Cooke, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences