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Radar 4/8 Click here keep up-to-date with the latest news from edie.net Warren Anderson said: "Every day, people ask us questions about our food and our ingredients, so we're inviting members of the public to see for themselves what's in some of our most popular products and follow the journey from farm to restaurant. "We're extremely proud of our longstanding British supply chain and the quality standards we have in place, but we know there is a lot of curiosity about our food." Business M&S and Interface call for radical cultural change on resource efficiency Marks & Spencer (M&S) head of sustainable business Mike Barry and Interface sustainability director Ramon Arratia have called for a culture of radical efficiency built into business models to accelerate the development of sustainable raw materials. Speaking at the Sustainable Business Resource Scarcity & the Circular Economy conference earlier this year, Arratia criticised companies for relying on heavy rhetoric rather than action, and said brand leaders needed to be more inventive in their efforts to push the material optimisation agenda forward. "So many CEOs walk around saying that sustainability is embedded in their DNA," he said, a comment which drew murmurs of assent from the audience. "We need radical efficiency so we can invent new raw materials. You can still be radical selling the same products, but this might involve coming up with new suppliers and materials for these products - and that carries a certain degree of risk," he added. Mike Barry echoed this sentiment and said there was "no such thing as classical commodities anymore". "No longer will companies be able to push onto society for free. The one thing you'll see from M&S in the future is a push on quality - clothes that last, and a real shift away from disposable fashion," he told delegates.