What are UK retailers doing to cut waste?
As part of the government’s initiative to make the UK a ‘zero waste’ nation, a number of major British retailers are rising to the challenge and finding new ways to cut waste and boost recycling rates.
Strategies
Here’s what just a few of the UK’s retailers are doing to address ‘green issues:
• Asda – Supermarket company Asda have set themselves an ambitious target of sending zero waste to landfill sites by the end of 2010. Asda are also committed to treating all of the food waste it generates with energy-from-waste technology, anaerobic digestion.
• Marks & Spencer – With a deadline of 2012 to aim at, M&S are attempting to cut operational waste by 25 per cent and construction waste by 50 per cent. M&S are also taking responsibility for consumer and packaging waste through upcoming deals with local councils.
• Ikea – Ikea is reducing waste disposal costs by recycling as much waste carboard and paper as possible, using on-site waste balers and sending materials to local waste disposal facilities for reprocessing.
• Waitrose – The upmarket supermarket chain has committed to a target of 95 per cent of operational waste diverted from landfill by the year 2013.
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