The Environmental Blog

MAY 14, 2020

Producing everything from coolers and cups to backpacks and camping chairs, this is a retailer you don’t want to miss out on. Their products are available in larger retailers like Sprouts and Target, and are even used by some fast food chains like Carl’s Jr. and Del Taco.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In 2018, the cost of these returns to UK retailers was put at £362 million. Returns impact retailers financially – eating into their profits during an important shopping peak period. Retailers can find themselves left with stock they are unable to resell. New life for old tech.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

RAMR is the brainchild of a steering group comprising two leading UK trade associations, the Textile Recycling Association (TRA) and the National Bed Federation (NBF), a number of mattress recyclers, manufacturers, retailers, waste management firms and local authority representatives.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2020

High street fashion retailer rolls out collection boxes for shoppers to ditch old clothes at all 190 of its UK stores. Primark has launched a nationwide recycling scheme to enable shoppers to recycle clothes of any brand at the fashion retailer's stores, in an effort to slow the flow of garments ending up in landfill every year.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

The approach will encompass collaboration across the entire development process and value chain, from suppliers to retailers. They need to be given the right tools to make informed and ethical decisions. The firm appears to align with those who have warned that offsetting is not sustainable in the long run.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

. • Social and environmental ethics have never been such a driving force in consumer food choice – so producers need to keep up with demands. Scottish salmon farmers can tap into the growing demand for sustainably and ethically produced food: leading to potentially growing profits for rural farmers to spread and support local rural economies.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

On the supply side, we only partner with ethical and sustainable brands who manufacture natural toxin-free clothing using organic agricultural practices, which regenerate natural systems,” Butler said. “We Mimica’s labels are an intervention at the retail and consumer level to prevent edible food from being thrown out.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The retail giant has published its new sustainability strategy with targets for 2030. We will make sure we deliver products and brands that allow our customers to shop ethically and responsibly, safe in the knowledge that they are reducing their impact on the planet and contributing to a fairer world.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

B-Stock's Hannah Prangnell sets out the ways retailers and consumers can create a more circular furniture economy. Consequently, furniture retailers are coming under immense scrutiny from governments and consumers alike to be environmentally responsible as people look for less impactful ways to buy goods.

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 5, 2021

another ethical? Evian and Virgil Abloh have conceived? water bottle design with the idea that sustainable? design can be an inclusive process for future Black Designers.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Retail business sustainability. Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program. What is retail sustainability? To operate indefinitely, a retail brand must meet environmental, social, and economic demands.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

Amali Bunter, head of responsible sourcing and ethical trade at Lidl, said the new initiative was a "huge milestone" for the retailer, which has pledged to source all of its "key" raw materials from certified sustainable sources. "We

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The kind of Reddit-coordinated collective action by retail investors that disrupted stock prices recently soon may be copied by ethical investors armed with highly specific real-time emissions data to achieve similar effects. For the unprepared, the damage could be severe.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The new report - titled Making the UK a global leader in sustainable fashion' - was lauched at the latest meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion earlier this week. Creating a sustainable and ethical future for the fashion industry?is?an

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Eco-Business

JULY 15, 2021

Wong switches from supply chain auditing firm Elevate to the Australian retailer, which aims to become the country's most sustainable supermarket.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

Downstream supply chain participants that rarely have a personal stake, such as powerful brands and retailers, hardly encourage prioritization of sustainability upstream. Traditional manufacturers abide by the "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" adage, while the ultimate retailer of the shirt has no direct ties to the manufacturer.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

"While we know these magazines are popular with children, some of the unnecessary plastic attached to them has become really excessive," said Marija Rompani, partner and director for sustainability and ethics at Waitrose. Many in the younger generation really care about the planet and are the ones inheriting the problem of plastic pollution.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The British retail giant has committed to reducing its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions in line with climate science. group and appointed new climate change specialists to support the development of a new roadmap towards net zero emissions, the retail giant announced yesterday. warming trajectory.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

Retail partnership aims end the use of fossil fuels across its entire fleet by 2030. With the online business of both John Lews and Waitrose having grown significantly during the pandemic due to lockdown restrictions on physical shopping, the retailer plan to begin rolling out the first of thousanes of new electric delivery vans next year.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

Three fashion retailers could face legal action from the UK's Competition and Markets Authority if found to have misled its customers over the environmental credentials of their products. Online retailers ASOS and Boohoo both promote more ‘ethically'-produced clothing ranges on their websites.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Campaigners have plastered at least 4,000 “Pumping for Putin” stickers on petrol pumps to raise awareness and urge the retailers to end their trade in Russian oil, according to organisers.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

An opportunity to invest in the project has just been launched by Abundance Investment, a UK-based ethical investment crowdfunding platform. Sterling Suffolk was formed in 2014 to operate an advanced glasshouse supplying tomatoes for the UK market through a wholesaler to large retailers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Retailer has committed to slashing the emissions generated by its supply chain by 30 per cent by 2030 as it joins Adidas, Nike, Mango and Chanel in supporting UN's sustainable fashion pledge.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

That's probably because it doesn't occur to many retail investors that they could have a say in how businesses are run, and traditionally big businesses haven't really been quick to promote that fact. Events from the past year have demonstrated the impact activist investors can have on businesses to push for ethical change.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Leading retail brand pledges to ensure 45 per cent of transactions are for circular products and services, as eBay celebrates how ‘Love Island effect’ is driving demand for ‘pre-loved’ clothes. We don't have all the answers, but we are committed to finding solutions, through a continued imaginative approach to retail innovation.".

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 28, 2023

Donovan’s Sunny Goodge Street | Seeds for success | Ethical savings | Wilko workers Grace Dent, in her review of the restaurant 64 Goodge Street ( ‘You can imagine a Helena Bonham Carter character lunching here’, 25 August ), suggests that “no one has ever purred seductively” about Goodge Street.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Some of these facilities supply British and European seafood wholesalers, who in turn sell to supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons and other retailers; caterers supplying pubs, hotels and restaurants, schools and universities; and the National Health Service, the four-year investigation found.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 4, 2021

They also cut financial corners by ignoring ethical working conditions standards. Designing and manufacturing sustainable clothing involves using sustainable materials that are obtained from environmentally friendly and ethically responsible sources. Kids O’Clock accepts Petite Lucette clothing among many other clothing brands.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2022

These efforts could be initially targeted at large companies across retail, manufacturing, out of home, food to go and online delivery businesses, it said. A recent survey of 27 retailers, restaurants, and catering companies by the Food Foundation charity highlighted the dangers of a voluntary approach.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

However, through more climate-friendly working practices, the German-owned retailer hopes to save 22.5 Lidl Germany recently expanded its vegan food offerings, sold under the retailer's label Vemondo, to over 450 products - while offsetting all emissions to make the range 100 per cent 'carbon neutral'.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A host of globally-recognised brands across fashion, retail, and food are "ignoring" tropical deforestation driven by demand for palm oil, soy, timber, beef, and other commodities, leaving them exposed to major reputational risks, a major new report has today warned.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

One of America’s leading fashion retailers, Nordstrom, has announced that it will be ending the sale of fur and animal skins by 2021. We applaud Nordstrom for ending the sale of fur and becoming the first United States-based retailer to ban exotic animal skins,” Block said. Nordstrom Via VegNews Image via Nordstrom.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Maren Costa joined Amazon in 2002 as a designer for the retail website. She later became the company’s first Principal User Experience Designer and was a leading contributor to several businesses including the retail website, Amazon Go stores, Alexa, and a variety of early-stage innovation projects. Stay tuned for Conversation II.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. Your local reclaimed lumber dealer or architectural salvage retailer is your best option as it supports the local economy, requires fewer miles to transport the lumber to your building site and it allows you to have a look at the lumber in person and know exactly the quality you’re getting.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2021

A great resource is Enervee Choice Engine , this online website searches all major retailers for the most energy efficient appliances. Being a sustainable business also means caring for community wellbeing and working to be socially and ethically responsible.

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Low Impact

APRIL 1, 2021

To find farm shops close to you, check out these links: Farm Retail Association Member Farm Shops Across the UK. Different types of ethical food hub include: Social supermarkets or co-op grocery stores. They aim to make ethical the new normal. Farm Shops at Farming UK. Pick-your-own and farm stands. Veg box deliveries.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution are unquestionably among the biggest challenges we will face in our lifetime and tackling them will require a different kind of thinking," said Marija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability at the John Lewis Partnership."By

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