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The business case to use natural resources more efficiently while reducing dependence on nonrenewable materials is increasingly clear. For retailers, reducing direct environmental impacts like energy, water, waste, and land use provide opportunities to streamline business operations and save costs.
Developing strategic and operational plans to address the environmental footprint of retail involves understanding impacts, prioritizing responses, tracking progress, and identifying innovative ways to improve retail’s operational footprint. Most important—and most immediately tangible—are the facility operations that organizations control directly and can influence the most, including reducing energy and water consumption, minimizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and increasing recycling rates to reduce waste.
Through the process of measurement, assessment, strategy implementation, and reporting, retailers are building a foundation that will support continuous improvement in sustainability efforts. These efforts translate into superior operational performance and business and community leadership and provide opportunities to show how the retail business model and sustainable practices intertwine.
Learn more about the retail industry's efforts to improve their operational environmental footprint:
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