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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 to scale circular design across its business, introducing a new ‘Progressive’ design level which raises expectations for materials, durability and recyclability [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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, 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 [...]

100 percent of 808 tonnes of waste diverted from landfill, with 35 percent recycled and the remainder converted into energy 43,000kg of CO₂ emissions saved 90 percent reduction in [...]

Technology-driven post-purchase and retail returns solution ZigZag, has partnered with The Salvation Army to help divert more unwanted clothing from disposal. The Donate by Post initiative will supply consumers with [...]

Quadient, a global automation platform powering secure and sustainable business connections, has announced a strategic partnership with Radical Storage, one of the world’s largest luggage storage networks, operating  2,000 cities [...]

Scaling switch to preferred materials: 74 percent of clothes now made from recycled or more sustainably sourced fibres, up from 66 percent last year. Progress on its [...]

Dunelm, a UK homewares retailer, is proud to announce that its long-standing partnership with British Heart Foundation (BHF) has now raised over £1 million to support vital [...]

Central Co-op has prevented over 8,800 tonnes of food waste over three years since partnering with Retail Insight. Broken down, this means the retailer has saved nearly [...]

A free public exhibition unites Savile Row tailors in honour of wool excellence  The Campaign for Wool is a multiple-industry initiative that was founded in January 2010 [...]