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As a major international retailer M arks & Spencer has a wide and complex impact on the
environment. O ur endeavours to minimise this impact are equally diverse. From reducing
packaging to building more energy-efficient stores, and from designing quieter lorries to
raising animals more humanely, we are driven by one ambition – to extend environmental
awareness into every aspect of our operations.
The environment, health and safety
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
NEW H O M ES FO R OLD PCS
The speed of technological change means we constantly have to
discard computers and tills, even though many still have life left in
them. No longer, though, do we simply have to throw them away.
Thanks to an IT recycling initiative, almost 300 PCs have found
new homes, such as the Chorleywood Primar y School,
Buckinghamshire seen here. Before arrival at the school or charity
each machine is fully cleaned and reconditioned. Other redundant
equipment, which is beyond a second life, goes to a special
recycling centre we run jointly with computer Þrm ICL. This strips
out precious and reusable parts before carefully disposing of the
remainder. Besides helping the environment, this helps business
too. For every £1 we spend on recycling, we save around £3 in
equipment and disposal costs.
EN CO URAGEM EN T FO R RECYCLIN G
New legislation in the UK requires companies which make or use
large amounts of packaging to fund recycling schemes.
Marks & Spencer, which has been advising the Government on this
legislation since 1993, has responded by joining forces with several
suppliers and UK Waste Management Ltd to launch the Þrst
scheme of the initiative called Recycle UK. Based in Bath and
backed by Friends of the Earth, this scheme works with local
authorities in
Bath and sends lorries round local areas to collect packaging waste
put out by households in special plastic box es outside their homes.
We hope this pioneering project will become a model for other
schemes nationwide.
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