Sustainability

Co-op’s newest store launches to serve the community of Attleborough including a focus on showcasing sustainability

22nd September 2026|Company News, Latest News, New Stores, Sustainability|

Co-op launches its newest store to serve and support the community in the Norfolk market town of Attleborough The store is the latest to launch with a [...]

Dreams marks 1.3 million mattresses recycled as it urges Brits to recycle their old beds

17th September 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Dreams and Waste Management and Recycling partner Circom have recycled 1.3 million mattresses since September 2015 The milestone equates to saving 42,000 tonnes of mattresses from landfill [...]

Dalziel & Pow rewrites the story of unsold fashion for Crisis

16th September 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Crisis, the charity dedicated to ending homelessness in the UK, has relaunched its fashion upcycling initiative Create for Crisis with a bold new retail identity and supporting [...]

Sustainable girl summer: What retailers can learn from Love Island and eBay’s resale partnership

6th August 2026|Company News, Latest News, Opinion, Sustainability|

By Inge Bujakiewicz-Baars, Head of Sustainability at ReBound Returns This summer, sustainable fashion shared the spotlight with villa drama thanks to eBay's partnership with Love Island, which [...]

Iceland Foods and Olio celebrate 10 million meals rescued

27th July 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Iceland Foods and Olio are celebrating a major milestone in their partnership, having redistributed more than 10 million meals’ worth of surplus food since launching their redistribution [...]

Immersive ocean experience set to make a splash at Grand Arcade

13th July 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

This summer, Grand Arcade in Cambridge is partnering with the University Museum of Zoology to deliver an immersive, ocean-themed art exhibition for visitors. ‘Grand Depths’, which will run from [...]

The supermarket clothing boom and how it has escaped the fast-fashion backlash

16th June 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

38 percent of consumers buy more supermarket clothing than two years ago Fewer than one in ten have ethical (8 percent) or sustainability (6 percent) concerns about supermarket [...]

Westfield Stratford City partners with Shelter to Launch ‘Reloved Market’ circular fashion pop-up

11th June 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Westfield Stratford City has partnered with Shelter to launch ‘Reloved Market’, a four-day retail activation designed to demonstrate how physical retail can drive both commercial performance and [...]

Little Soap Company honoured with a 2026 King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainability

6th May 2026|Awards, Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Little Soap Company, the Worcestershire-based natural soap pioneer, has been honoured with a 2026 King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainabilty, one of just 185 organisations recognised nationally this year [...]

Specsavers rolls out national recycling initiative to all UK stores

23rd April 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Specsavers has announced that it is funding a full national roll-out of its successful recycling boxes across all of its UK stores, offering customers the chance to [...]

Ocado Retail launches ‘Future of Food Edit’ aisle this Earth Day to support a more sustainable food system

22nd April 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Health food sales on Ocado up 234 percent year-on-year, with searches for high-protein, high-fibre and low-sugar products surging 77 percent of UK consumers want retailers to make [...]

Primark launches its updated Circular Product Standard 2.0

14th April 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Primark launches its updated Circular Product Standard 2.0 to scale circular design across its business, introducing a new ‘Progressive’ design level which raises expectations for materials, durability and recyclability [...]

B&Q partners with British Coatings Federation to support UK paint recycling trial

10th March 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

B&Q has announced it will take part in a UK PaintCare trial in selected stores. The PaintCare initiative is an industry led programme developed by the British [...]

Co-op expands its electric online home delivery fleet with Toyota

6th March 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Co-op is expanding its electric home delivery fleet with Toyota with a £1.5 million investment to replace and upgrade its own vehicle fleet and to support carbon reduction [...]

URW and Ingka Centres launch Sustainable Retail Index Association

27th February 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Industry-first association will develop a coalition of stakeholders to promote a recognised standard for engaging the commercial real estate sector in the sustainable transition of retail Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield [...]

UK supermarkets show progress on packaging sustainability – but there’s still room to improve

26th February 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

More than half of supermarket packaging scores green under Defra’s recycling methodology, helping to reduce EPR fees 70 percent of the packaging assessed showed no obvious signs [...]

Modern Milkman launches Collections Service for toys and electrical waste

20th February 2026|Company News, Latest News, Sustainability|

Modern Milkman, the sustainable doorstep delivery service, has launched a Collections Service. Designed to solve an ever-growing household problem of what to do with the toys, cables [...]

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