At Sainsbury's, respecting the environment is about doing the right thing. We aim to be the UK's greenest grocer, which is great for our business but even better for the environment.
Respect for our environment
Climate change represents a huge global challenge, and tackling the issue means addressing factors that affect the environment both directly and indirectly. This is particularly true in retail, as we need to consider not only our own environmental performance, but also that of our supply chain, while also considering how we can help our customers make more sustainable choices.
Wherever practical, we are taking steps at every level of our business to reduce our carbon and wider environmental footprint. We have divided our climate change strategy into three key sections: our operations, our products and our customers.
Over the past year, we have continued to reduce the impact of our operations by using new innovations in the way we build and sustain our stores. We do all we can to reduce energy consumption to limit our carbon emissions, focusing on the latest available renewable energy technologies and our energy efficiency programme, Reset .
Working closely with our suppliers has become an increasingly important part of our environmental agenda. This year we have launched a supplier sustainability scorecard, which will help us to track and measure supplier environmental footprints while encouraging them to grow with us sustainably. We have also increased our focus on biodiversity, with our farmers and growers, and uniquely at our stores too.
The relaunch of Sainsbury's Energy, in partnership with British Gas, has encouraged customers and colleagues to be environmentally responsible and shown them the importance of sustainable energy.
Our 'Respect for our environment ' value is about "doing more with less" and we are very proud of the progress we have made in reducing our environmental impact. We know we can continue this over the coming months and years.
Water stewardship |
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Our commitment By 2020, through robust water stewardship we'll ensure that our supply chain approach is sustainable in areas of water vulnerability. Read more in Sainsbury's view on water stewardship. |
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Positive waste usage |
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Our commitment By 2020, we'll put all waste to positive use. Read more in Sainsbury's view on food and waste recycling. |
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Sustainable and Innovative packaging |
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Our commitment By 2020, we'll make sure that our own packaging has been reduced by a half compared to 2005. Read more in Sainsbury's view on reducing packaging. |
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Operational carbon emissions reduction |
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Our commitment By 2020, we'll have reduced our operational carbon emissions by 30 per cent absolute and 65 per cent relative, compared with 2005 (this is part of our broader target of an absolute carbon reduction of 50 per cent by 2030). Read more in Sainsbury's view on reducing our carbon emissions. |
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Supplier carbon emissions reduction |
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Our commitment By 2020, we'll have worked with our own brand suppliers to reduce carbon emissions across all of our own brand products by 50 per cent relative. Read more in Sainsbury's view on reducing our suppliers' carbon emissions. |
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