Recently I have been looking at how the major UK retail companies report their environmental programmes and initiatives on-line. I have attached a graph which shows the assessment of the information provided based on seven categories,
An Environmental or CSR report
Energy Usage
Waste & Recycling information
Transport data
Water Usage
Sustainable Procurement
Future Environmental Targets
For each of the seven categories the retailers could score a maximum of three points based on whether they provided limited, medium or extensive information on each topic.
The graph shows that the grocery sector received the highest marks. Clothing, home & furniture and general retailers all obtained low marks and the discount grocery and drink / off-licence retail groups did not provide any environmental information at all.
Further down in the data all categories of retailer scored particularly low marks for providing information on water usage.
The full report will be available shortly from the Resource Efficiency – Knowledge Transfer Network website (www.resource-efficiency.org)
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