Managed shopping centres

The cost of waste in the retail sector is typically 4% of turnover - and is often as high as 10%. Implementing waste minimisation measures can reduce these costs by a quarter - often with little or no cost to the company.

Reducing waste while providing the same service reduces both environmental impact and costs - these savings go straight to your bottom line. This applies to both the shopping centre and the retail units within it. The key to success is co-operation and partnership.

The key to achieving big savings is in understanding the difference between waste minimisation and waste management.

• Waste minimisation focuses on how to avoid generating waste in the first place.
• Waste management focuses on how to deal with the waste that does occur.

Shopping Centre Toolkit

The Shopping Centre toolkit has been created so that shopping centres can develop their own campaign by working closely with their tenants, to improve resource efficiency of both the centre and it's tenants.

The toolkit provides a step by step approach including templates, checklists and sample tenant communications.

To request your copy of the toolkit please e-mail the Retail team.