John Lewis aims to cut waste and improve recycling
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 10:45:19
John Lewis is one of the UK’s most respected retailers, as well as a keen innovator that regularly seeks to adapt its business in order to remain relevant.
One way it is looking to achieve this is through the enactment of major changes to the way it handles its clothing, with the intention of making it more environmentally friendly and sustainable.
This not only means minimising waste, but also embracing recycling and working with designers to address long standing issues in this area, according to letsrecycle.com.
It has partnered with WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme), a registered charity, which works with businesses, individuals and communities to help them reduce waste. Together, they have introduced a comprehensive Sustainable Clothing Action Plan (SCAP), providing it with long term goals on sustainability which have to be met by the end of the decade.
This is not just about ensuring that the companies which supply major retailers like John Lewis with clothing lines are doing more to make their operations sustainable, but that the retailers themselves are involved in the decision-making process.
John Lewis spokesperson, Eoghan Griffin, said that the SCAP system had enabled the firm to re-evaluate the way in which it handles clothing and work out where it was going wrong, so that changes and improvements could be made.
Griffin went on to point out that this information was also relevant for customers, since if clothing is treated with greater care it can last for longer and means that there is less need for people to buy new items and discard old, worn out ones.
People have a responsibility to recycle old clothing, whether by donating it to clothing banks if it is still in a wearable condition or sending the textiles for recycling if it is beyond repair. And yet this part of the recycling sector can get overshadowed by higher profile aspects, like e-waste and mobile phone recycling.
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