News Category: State of the Waste Industry
Home Improvement Sector Pledges to Cut Waste and Packaging
29 October 2009
Six of the UK’s top DIY retailers and brands have signed an historic
agreement to reduce packaging and waste to landfill, under a new voluntary industry
initiative led by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
Wickes, B&Q, Homebase, Argos, Focus and Henkel have agreed to work together
for the first time to achieve a 15% packaging reduction and a 50% reduction
in waste to landfill by the end of 2012, against a 2007 baseline. They will
also look at ways of helping consumers to recycle more.
More information is available on the WRAP website here:
http://www.wrap.org.uk/wrap_corporate/news/home_improvement.html |
