Putting waste in its place

In February 2008 Homebase launched a major programme to reduce landfill waste across all its stores. This was made possible by the introduction of waste backhauling from stores to distribution centres for onwards recycling. The programme is supported by colleague training, comprehensive waste guides and a dedicated team of waste managers providing advice and support to stores.

“The putting waste in its place is going very well in stores, stores are now a lot more focused on what they can do with their waste streams in store, and have had to engage all colleagues at store level to help reduce our landfill targets, it requires everyone to play their part and change attitudes to waste from a corporate view and an ecological view. Some stores have already reduced their skips by a significant amount already and have a real “buy in” to what we are doing, all feed back is very positive and we are now looking for more ways to get even better at our challenge.”

Russell Berger, waste and recycling advisor for the northern regions